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    Frozen Blooded Murder Insanity is defined as being in the state of mental illness, madness, or lacking the ability to fully understand right from wrong. When used in the courtroom, many defendants and criminals plead not guilty by reason of insanity, which is often misused, making it hard to differentiate the truly innocent ones, and the real criminals. Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a great representation of the insanity plea. The main character Mary Maloney kills her…

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    “Lamb to the Slaughter”, a short story written by the celebrated author Roald Dahl, is a story that follows Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife who had recently found out her husband, a chief detective, was going to leave her. Out of desperation, Mary murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the murder weapon by encouraging the policemen who were investigating the murder to eat it. The most salient idea the author explores is the betrayal;…

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    The Cynicism Surrounding Sanity The legitimacy of mental illnesses and insanity has been questionable within a myriad of societies throughout history. No individual is psychologically identical to anyone else, so there is no divine truth in determining what is sane and what is not. Because of this, some people are subjugated from the masses and some research correlates insanity with the creation of serial murders and criminals. Others are less fortunate and become prisoners of their own minds…

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    Many people think of psychopaths as only men, however women can be psychopaths too. The ratio of men to women has been as high as twenty to one. Alexa Steele is the author of the murder mystery, The Forgotten Girls. This novel takes place in Greenvale, New York, a luxurious town with a killer on the loose. It is up to Bella DeFranco and her partner Mack to solve the murder and put their unknown subject away for good. Dr. Weber, in the Forgotten Girls by Alexa Steele, is a suspicious character…

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    Asylums are supposed to stabilize the insane, but what if they did the exact opposite? In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest not only is the sanity of the patients questioned but the staff’s too. The methods of the institution are questionable ethically and morally. Giving the patients unknown pills and taking away their masculinity is very dubious. The ways of the institute is soon questioned because of the arrival of Randle McMurphy. Due to the control, different perspectives, and…

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    It is impeditive that Forensic Professionals become accustomed to documentation of services early in their career not only for the consideration of ethical guidelines but for legal requirements as well. Forensic Professionals are encouraged to recognize importance of documentation of all data. According to APA Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Professionals, Documentation consist of any forms of proof that maybe subpoenaed for review by the courts or used as a reference during an expert…

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    Abstract This paper focuses on the process of mentally disordered offenders in the criminal justice system. Offenders who possess mental illness have a unique set of circumstances and needs which will be discussed in this paper. The elements examined in this paper are based in the process of offenders with mental illness and the needed treatment. The elements include the offenders with mental illness, the different type of treatment, issues concerning their treatment, the mental health…

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    Court decided in this case that Arizona had the right to severely limit the insanity defense. The timing of this journal article is relevant because it might have been a product of the supreme court’s ruling on the case. Maybe even more important than the timing of this article is its age. At about ten years old, the information in this piece could be out of date. There are no significant changes to the defense in the last 10 years, but other parts of the United States judicial system are always…

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    The Purpose Of Punishment

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    It is obvious that the main issue is whether to heal a prisoner simply for the purpose of execution or otherwise. The basic undertone to this argument could be whether the government authority has the power to force prisoners or citizens to take drugs without their consent regardless of their status. Another point of argument could be making a prisoner sane before execution is rational or a good reasoning before killing. In this scenario, Charles Laverne Singleton is a prisoner on death row,…

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    The moment we are no longer in control of our behavior can we really blame our brain anatomy and chemistry. The thoughts you have running in the back of your mind, good or bad have the chance to come out only if you let it. As to the extent of how far your actions take you, it can be the deciding factor of going to jail. I strongly believe that if you are unaware of your actions because of a serious illness you shouldn’t be accused of any wrongdoing. Furthermore, if it is found that you have no…

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