He is deathly afraid of his mother and authority figures. I think that Billy has Anxiety disorder as well as social phobia. I do not think that Billy should be in the ward‚ he would do better at a rehabilitation facility. The ward is for insane or criminally insane and Billy does not belong there. 2. I do not think that McMurphy (Mac) was voluntarily committed. Someone who is voluntarily committed is a person who seeks help on their own. They check themselves into an institution and may leave whenever
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crime they committed. In order to be found innocent using the insanity defense one must prove that he was unable to notice that his actions were wrong. Although definitions of legal insanity differ from place to place‚ generally a person is considered insane and is not responsible for criminal conduct if‚ at the time of the offence‚ as a result of a severe mental disease or defect‚ he or she was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his or her acts. A fairly recent case that
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Screenplay Writer: Laeta Kalogridis Novel written by Dennis Lehane Principle cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Edward Daniels/ Andrew Laeddis)‚ Mark Ruffalo‚ Ben Kingsley‚ Michelle Willliams (Dolores Chanal) How should people deal with the criminally insane? They are very dangerous figures‚ who had harmed people before. Some psychiatrists believe that drugs can control the mental conditions of the patients. However‚ some psychiatrists believe that to lobotomize the patients is the only way to stop
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indigent and could prove and convince the public of such‚ he’d most likely be institutionalized. But should he not let the system suppress him‚ he’d be declared dangerously deviant and probably criminally insane and then he’d be lobotomized or killed. Even though the "dangerously deviant‚ criminally insane rebel" would be trying to fight for the good of a great many‚ the authorities would take it as a personal threat‚ because after all‚ should the public be convinced of a cruel and unjust system
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began. The verdict of this trail changed the way the civilized world views the criminally insane. People who were criminally insane went from being viewed as evil and wild beasts to people who could not be held accountable for their actions at the time of the crime they committed. As time progressed‚ the insanity defense became an acceptable defense and rules were laid forth on how to declare people criminally insane. In this essay I will give the events responsible for the McNaughton trial and
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proven that less than 1% of criminal cases successfully plead insanity‚ and most of the ‘insane’ individuals are sent to psychiatric facilities‚ for longer than they would have been locked up in prison. Because of those breathtaking statistics‚ we can tell that the insanity plea is not abused‚ and therefore is a necessity in our society. Most people believe that many of the defendants attempting to plead insane‚ are taking advantage of civil liberties granted to all citizens. Civil liberties are personal
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Criminally Insane Many people wrongly believe that there are only two ways to plead in trial‚ guilty and not guilty. There is also another way to plead‚ that most people use to try and escape any criminal responsibility‚ pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Not guilty by reason of insanity refers to the defense of offenders not to deny the commission of the crime‚ but to assert they lacked the capacity to understand the nature of the crime or that it was wrong (Allen). The definition
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The insanity defense was established so people who commit crimes due to severe mental illness are not responsible for their crimes. Throughout the years the insanity defense has evolved along with the court system but are the mentally ill being treated fairly in the court of law? Changes in the insanity defense laws and the abolishment of the defense is some states have made proving not guilty by reason of insanity nearly impossible. The tougher laws on the insanity defense have put people who
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out of death and succeed in something that only God has accomplished. To create his “Creature” Victor robs the graves of the criminally insane and convicts to get the necessary body parts to complete his creation. So from the start the “Creature” was doomed to be ugly and hideous. This is enhanced by the fact that the body parts used are those of the dead criminally insane who had been hung until death. Their body parts were mangled and hideous to the eye. Victor decides to make the “creature” out
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Ed Gein was born 1906‚ in Plainview‚ Wisconsin. His father was a violent alcoholic‚ and his mother an obsessive Lutheran. His mother kept Ed‚ and his brother Henry‚ from any outside influence. Allowing them only to go to school‚ and return home. His mother often told them bible stories‚ and preached about how evil alcohol and women were. Ed Gein’s first murder could have been his brother‚ Henry‚ because he started to resent their mother. Henry didn’t share his mother’s opinion of the world‚ and even
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