Insanity_Defence

Insanity Defence Both Victor Weiner and Arthur Wolff can be proven guilty under the cognitive interpretation. The cognitive interpretation basically says that they are aware of and can describe the act committed, as well as aware that the committed act went against societal rules. In Victor Weiner’s case, he was aware of his action - cutting off a girl’s ponytail - as well as aware of the fact that this was wrong. We know he was aware of these things because he said that he had made various efforts to distract himself from cutting ponytails – the action. He also claimed to have attempted to prevent himself from performing the action, therefore making it clear he knew it was wrong. In Arthur Wolff’s case he was very aware that what he was doing was wrong. We can determine this by paying attention to the fact that: 1) he attempted to kill his mother the day before the actual assault but stopped because she realized he was in the room (as opposed to telling her “I am here to kill you” and preceding to do it) aware, wrong, weiner, control, because, act, wolff, mother, knew, kill, committed, action, victor, under, sign, said, right, police, off, made, interpretation, insane, information, iir, himself, guilty, given, fact, describe, day, cutting, cognitive, clearly, case, attempted