Strategic Defense Initiative

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 At about ten years old, the information in this piece could be out of date.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…

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,…

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…

Sane Enough to Die Imagine a state of paranoia so great that it starts to seem as if one’s own thoughts are not their own, or auditory and visual hallucinations that continuously speak of the inferiority of the masses, creating an intense sense of superiority in oneself. Such experiences are just a few of the possible symptoms of schizophrenia, a fairly well recognized psychological disorder present in today’s society. Psychological disorders are an incredibly real issue in the modern world…

Insanity Defense. What constitutes its use? How can personality psychology server to the client’s advantage? How is this field of psychology used to better determine a criminal’s behavior? How often is this form of defense used, and how successful is it in serving as a “get out of jail free card”? Before one can even begin to fathom any of these questions, one must first understand what this defense signifies. As one of our moral checks on the Criminal Justice System (CJS), the insanity…

The case of Andrea Yates is one of the most infamous cases in the last decade and the reason for that is because Andrea’s mental state leading up to the murders. Andrea Yates in 2001 drowned all five of her children in a bathtub in her Huston, Texas home. However, was she responsible for her actions? Andrea suffered from several mental illnesses including postpartum depression. She was constantly in and out of mental health institutions and was given medication to deal with her depression.…