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Publication Date: 1983
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Insanity Plea Proposals: Confusing, Contradictory, and Self-Serving.
Vatz, Richard E.; Weinberg, Lee S.
USA Today, v112 n2460 p30-32 Sep 1983
Current legal notions of insanity and moves to change them show the haziness surrounding the concepts of "mental illness" and "insanity." The American Psychiatric Association's "Statement of the Insanity Defense" and the legislating of mental illness defenses at the state level are analyzed. (SR)
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