Citation

Adjorlolo S, Chan HCO, DeLisi M. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 2019; 67: e101507.

Affiliation

Criminal Justice Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1070, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101507

PMID

31785724

Abstract

The insanity defense is among the most controversial legal constructs that has attracted the attention of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Here, we conducted a systematic review of the literature spanning 2004 to 2019 that produced 58 studies of insanity defense research.

FINDINGS are organized according to: (1) assessments and assessment-related issues, (2) juror decision-making in defense trials, (3) characteristics of insanity acquittees, (4) release recommendations for insanity acquittees, (5) revocation of conditional release status of insanity acquittees, and (6) additional areas of insanity defense research. Implications of the research for the insanity defense and cognate legal issues are proffered.

Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Insanity defense; Insanity plea; Mentally disordered offenders; Psychopathology