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Insanity is a legal term for any mental disease or defect severe enough to prevent someone from being legally responsible for his or her actions. Under many systems of criminal law, someone found to be insane cannot be guilty of a crime, but a defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity may still be considered dangerous.In early English history, people who were thought to be insane were not prosecuted for criminal behavior.
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Insanity is used chiefly in criminal law, to denote mental aberrations or defects that may relieve a person from the legal consequences of his or her acts.Today, psychologists may perform tests to determine whether or not the defendant is mentally stable.The plea is rarely employed in the United States, and less than 1% of defendants have used it