The Insanity Defense

Title: The Insanity Defense
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 2545 | Pages: 10.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Insanity Defense

“Equal justice for the unequal.”# For these few who cannot be held accountable for there actions because of mental disability or disease this statement is surly there savuor. The ideal in a free society is that all of its members shall be equal under the law they have chosen to govern them, that they shall share the same rights and responsibilities, and that if they violate their laws they will be punished no differently than …showed first 75 words of 2545 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2545 total…to its jurisdiction. It would be very odd for us to feel ourselves entitled to less control over those who could not control themselves than we have over those who simply did not. There are no quick or easy solutions to the problem of crime and the mentally ill, but if one can distinguish which questions ought to be asked and where to ask them, the answer to the problem may become that much clearer.

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