Insanity

Insanity Criminal Insanity Criminal insanity is a topic which sparks much heated debate. What causes insanity' Is insanity a physical or psychological problem' Is insanity actually a disease, or just a figment of a person’s imagination' Grolier’s Encyclopedia describes insanity as “a mental defect or disorder sufficient to prevent a person from knowing right and wrong conduct or from understanding the nature of his or her actions”. Some traits or dispositions are inherited, but the continuity of behavior, including antisocial activity, is maintained by social contexts and other aspects of the environment. If a criminal does not know the difference between right and wrong, can they be held accountable for the crimes they commit' If they don’t understand what they are doing is a crime, should they be punished as if they were criminals or treated as patients with a disease' This problem has plagued courts, lawyers, juries, and defendants for a long time and does not appear any closer to a solution. One belief to why people first become criminally insane is because of the way they were treated as children. ill, mentally, gacy, people, mental, insanity, treatment, time, illness, criminal, community, child, programs, problem, one, offenders, legal, know, justice, insane, guilty, example, disease, children, wrong, under, treated, system, show, serial, same, offender, nature, killers, killer