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Insanity Defense
Outbursts of violence cast doubt on the psychiatric competence to assess insanity and to balance the need to protect society with the need to offer a competent response to the mentally ill, who committed criminal offenses.
Criminal law assumes that individuals act ...
- Correctional Ethics
- Capital Punishment
- Castration of Sex Offenders
- Civil Commitment
- Clemency
- Codes of Conduct
- Codes of Conduct, Corrections
- Competency Restoration and Execution
- Convict Criminology and Convict Higher Education
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Custodial Use of Force
- Death Row
- Deterrence
- Discretion
- Due Process Rights of Prisoners
- Early Release
- Forensic Hospitals, Maximum Security
- Imprisonment Disparities, Race- and Class-Based
- Incapacitation
- Innocence Projects
- Institutionalization
- Intensive Parole and Probation Supervision
- Involuntary Outpatient Commitment
- Juveniles in Adult Jails
- Medical Treatment, Prisoner Right to and Right to Refuse
- Mentally Ill Offenders in Jail or Prison
- Offender Treatment
- Pariah Underground Economy
- Preventive Detention
- Prison Corruption
- Prison Gangs
- Prison Industrial Complex
- Prison Labor
- Prison Overcrowding
- Prison Relationships
- Prison Sexuality
- Prison Unions
- Prison Violence
- Prisoner Rights
- Prisoners' Dilemma
- Prisons, Private
- Punishment
- Rehabilitation
- Restorative Justice
- Restraints, Mechanical
- Retribution
- Selective Incapacitation
- Sex Offenders in Jails or Prisons
- Sex Offenders in the Community
- Shaming Penalties
- Solitary Confinement
- Supermax Prisons
- Victim–Offender Mediation and Reconciliation
- Wrongful Imprisonment
- Criminal Justice Cases and Controversies
- Atkins v. Virginia
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
- Florida v. Powell
- Graham v. Florida
- Kansas v. Hendricks
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Miller v. Alabama
- Reno v. ACLU
- Roper v. Simmons
- Smith v. Doe
- United States v. Jones
- United States v. Mitchell
- United States v. Tobias
- Virginia v. Black
- Wisconsin vs. Mitchell
- 9/11 Commission Report
- Abortion
- Abu Ghraib Prison
- Age of Criminal Responsibility
- At-Risk Youth
- Battered Woman Syndrome as Defense
- Boot Camps
- Brutalization Hypothesis
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Collateral Consequences and Felony Convictions
- Collective Efficacy and Crime
- Conscientious Objection
- Corporate Crime
- Criminal Profiling
- D.A.R.E.
- Date Rape
- DREAM Act
- Drug Legalization
- Elder Abuse
- Euthanasia
- Flag Burning
- Gambling
- Gang Subculture
- Genocide
- Gun Violence
- Hate Speech
- High-Profile Cases and “Justice for Sale”
- Human Trafficking
- Hurricane Katrina
- Immigration Law and Policy
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Juvenile Detention Facilities
- Juvenile Gangs and Delinquency
- Juveniles: Waiver or Transfer to Adult Court
- Pornography
- Prostitution
- Public Shootings
- Religious Convictions
- Sex Trafficking
- Sexually Violent Predator Statutes
- Specialized Court, Domestic Violence
- Specialized Court, Mental Health
- Specialized Court, Substance Abuse
- Sports and Ethics
- Suicide in Jail or Prison
- Torture
- Vagrancy and the Homeless
- Victim Impact Statements
- Victim Rights and Restitution in Sentencing
- Violence Risk Assessment
- Work Stress and Occupational Burnout
- Ethics and Critical Criminology
- New Jim Crow, The
- Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, The
- Seductions of Crime, The
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Amnesty International
- Animal Rights, Welfare, and Abuse
- Apartheid
- Apartheid, Petit
- Civil Disobedience, History of
- Class
- Commensense Justice
- Corporate Violence
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Criminology, Convict
- Criminology, Critical
- Criminology, Cultural
- Criminology, Ultramodern
- Critical Pedagogy
- Decriminalization
- Discrimination
- Elite Deviance
- Ethnocentrism
- Evidence
- Gender
- Globalization
- Governmentality
- Green Criminology
- Harms of Reduction and Repression
- International Criminal Courts
- LGBTQ Communities and Hate Crimes
- Panopticon
- Peacemaking and Nonviolence
- Postcolonialism
- Prison Abolition
- Psychological Jurisprudence
- Public Policy
- Race
- Risk Society
- Same-Sex Unions and Defense of Marriage Act
- Social Justice
- State-Sanctioned Violence
- Sustainability
- Synopticon
- Therapeutic Jurisprudence
- Transitional Justice
- USA PATRIOT Act
- Violence Against Girls and Women
- War Crimes
- War on Drugs
- White-Collar Crime
- Women in Prison
- General Criminal Justice Ethics
- Mala in Se and Mala Prohibita
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Code of Ethics
- Altruism
- Attorneys
- Causality
- Choice and Action (Actus Reus)
- Citizenship
- Community
- Conscience as Internal Sanction
- Corruption of Institutional Authority
- Crime
- Criminal Responsibility
- Culture
- Deception
- Determinism
- Deviance
- Dignity
- Distributive Justice
- Divine Command Theory
- Duties
- Empathy
- Forgiveness
- Free Will
- Guilt as Internal Sanction
- Hegemony
- Human Rights
- Identity
- Ideology
- Institutional Morality
- Institutional Review Boards
- Intention
- Just Deserts
- Knowledge
- Legitimacy
- Politics
- Power
- Proportionality
- Rational Choice Theory
- Reification
- Rights Under the Law
- Rule of Law
- Science
- Social Control
- Social Justice
- Values
- Vice
- Victims' Bill of Rights
- Virtue
- Volition
- History of Criminal Justice Ethics
- Criminal Justice Ethics
- Absolutism, Ethical
- Aristotle
- Beccaria, Cesare
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Communitarianism
- Deleuze, Gilles
- Demonology
- Egoism and Self-Interest, Ethical
- Egoism and Self-Interest, Psychological
- Foucault, Michel
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Hedonism
- Heidegger, Martin
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kohlberg, Lawrence
- Lacan, Jacques
- Levinas, Emmanuel
- MacIntyre, Alasdair
- Marx, Karl
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Mill, John Stuart
- Minimalism, Ethical
- Natural Law
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Noddings, Nel and Carol Gilligan
- Objectivism, Ethical
- Plato
- Positive Law
- Pragmatism, Ethical
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John
- Relativism, Ethical
- Ross, William David
- Sandel, Michael
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Socrates
- Universalism, Ethical
- Walzer, Michael
- Legal Ethics
- Parens Patriae
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Bail
- Codes of Conduct
- Competency to Stand Trial
- Determinate and Indeterminate Sentencing
- Double Jeopardy
- DUI Penalties
- Duress and Coercion
- Education, Continuing Legal
- Exclusionary Rule
- Excuses in Law
- Expert Testimony
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Guilt, Legal
- Habeas Corpus
- Harm Principle
- Hypnosis and Recovered Memory Testimony
- Insanity Defense
- Judicial Corruption
- Judicial Discretion
- Judicial Misconduct
- Juries, Duties and Rights of
- Jury Nullification
- Jury Selection
- Justifications in Law
- Juvenile Sentencing
- Juveniles in Adult Courts
- Mandatory Sentencing Laws
- Military Courts
- Moralism, Legal
- Morality Versus Law
- Neuroscience and the Criminal Law
- Offensive Conduct
- Paternalism
- Plea Bargaining
- Polygraphs
- Prosecutorial Discretion
- Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Psychological Tests in the Courtroom
- Reasonableness
- Sentencing Disparities
- Sex Offender Registry
- Sexually Violent Predator Statutes
- Sodomy Laws
- Three-Strikes Laws
- Truth-in-Sentencing Statutes
- Victim Impact Statements
- Police Ethics
- Accountability
- Antiterrorism and Counterterrorism
- Arrest Practices
- Blue Wall of Silence
- Border Patrol
- Codes of Conduct
- Codes of Conduct, Police
- Community Policing
- Confessions, Coerced
- Criminal Informants
- Critical Incident Debriefing
- Deceptive Interrogation
- Dirty Harry Problem
- Discretion
- Drug Enforcement
- Entrapment
- Hostage Negotiations
- Internal Review Practices
- Malfeasance, Nonfeasance, and Misfeasance
- Miranda Warnings
- Neighborhood Watch
- Noble Cause Corruption
- Plain View Doctrine
- Police Corruption
- Police Deviance, Rationalizing
- Police Profiling
- Police Value System
- Police–Citizen Interaction
- Problem-Oriented Policing
- Rotten Apple Corruption
- Sting Operations
- Stop and Frisk
- Suicide by Cop
- TASERS, Pepper Spray, and Other Nonlethal Weapons
- Undercover Operations
- Use-of-Force Policies
- Vigilantism
- Warrants
- Zero-Tolerance Policing
- Technology, Crime, and Ethics
- Biometrics and Identification
- Closed-Circuit Television
- Compstat
- Computer Matching Technology
- Cyberbullying
- Cyberpornography
- Cyberstalking
- Cyberterrorism
- Digital Crime and Security
- Digital Evidence and Crime Scene Investigation
- DNA Lab Accountability
- Drones, Police Use of
- Electronic Monitoring Devices
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Internet Child Pornography
- Media and Crime
- Media in the Courtroom
- Newsmaking Criminology
- Predictive Policing
- Radio Frequency Identification Technology
- Robots, Police Use of
- Sexting
- Shotspotter Technology
- Simulated Justice
- Social Media as Evidence
- Social Media, Police–Citizen Interaction on
- Surveillance Policing, Digital Locating and Mapping
- Surveillance Policing, Video and Audio
- Televised Executions
- Texting-While-Driving Laws
- Thermal Imaging
- Wireless Communications
- Wireless Networking
- Wiretapping
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