Download or read book By Reason of Insanity written by Shane Stevens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevens takes readers on a harrowing descent into the mind of a mass murderer in this eerily realistic serial-killer novel. At the center of this gripping epic novel of mass murder, pursuit, and psychological terror is Thomas Bishop, a psychotic young killer who believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed for rape in California amid intense controversy. Subjected to unmerciful physical and mental torture from an early age, Bishop kills his mother at the age of ten and is placed in an institution for the criminally insane. He grows to manhood knowing the outside world only through a television screen. At twenty-five, he succeeds in a brilliant escape and change of identity and begins to move across the country, murdering women in particularly gruesome ways. Pursued by reporters, police, and the mob, Bishop manages to elude them all, and the search for him becomes the greatest manhunt in US history.The chilling denouement will hold readers spellbound until the shattering, unforgettable conclusion.
Download or read book Guilty by Reason of Insanity written by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D. and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them. From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, from maximum security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis and her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, search to understand the origins of violence. GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.
Download or read book By Reason of Insanity written by Mark Bourrie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of David Michael Krueger, who, on his first day pass from his Brockville, Ontario, psychiatric hospital, brutally murdered another patient.
Download or read book By Reason of Insanity written by Randy Singer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Christy Award finalist! After a series of kidnappings and murders in Virginia Beach, newspaper reporter Catherine O'Rourke experiences disturbing dreams that detail each crime. In an effort to aid the investigation, she shares them with her confidential source—a detective working on the case. Catherine's intimate knowledge of the crimes immediately makes her a prime suspect. When scientific evidence corroborates her guilt, she's arrested and charged with murder. As she begins to doubt her own innocence, Catherine turns to Las Vegas lawyer Quinn Newberg, a high-priced specialist in the insanity defense. Quinn believes in justice, Vegas-style. But he doesn't believe in the supernatural, or that Catherine's dreams are anything other than the result of a fractured personality disorder. Who can understand the human mind? Quinn knows that insanity cases are unpredictable, but nothing had prepared him for this! To win, or even survive, Quinn will need more than his famed legal maneuvering and biting skepticism. On this case, he needs a miracle.
Download or read book Voices of Reason Voices of Insanity written by Ivan Leudar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.
Download or read book Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity written by Randy Starr and published by Recovery Books. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guilty By Reason of Insanity written by David Limbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today’s Democrats are pushing policies that are simply insane, and David Limbaugh proves it in his terriffic, and tremendously important, new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity." — MARK LEVIN "Few pundits can match David Limbaugh for research, depth of knowledge, and political insight, and in this book, perhaps his best political book, he shows how the Democrat Party has completely lost its mind." — SEAN HANNITY The left has truly lost its mind. The party out of power used to be “the loyal opposition.” No longer. Now it’s “the Resistance.” The left, abandoning any pretense of fairness and decency, has declared political war on President Trump. Waged by a stunningly broad array of militants—the Democratic Party, countless left-wing interest groups, radical academics, the liberal mainstream media, Antifa shock troops, Hollywood, and the tech oligarchs—this political war is aimed not only at conservative ideas but also at Trump supporters, even teenagers wearing MAGA hats. In his shocking new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity, national #1 bestselling author David Limbaugh explains how the left lost its mind—and the threat it now poses to us all. No book you read this year could be more important.
Download or read book By Reason of Insanity written by Richard R. Sternberg and published by Ipbooks. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume offers a rare glimpse into unfamiliar-in a sense, even, forbidden-territory for most psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals. The stories are fascina*ng and sensi*vely rendered; the writing is as crisp, accessible and compelling as a strong piece of fific*on. I recommend this for anyone hungry to explore the darkest recesses of the human mind.I can state with certainty that I have never read anything like it. -Steven Kuchuck, President, Interna*onal Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Download or read book Plea of Insanity written by Jilliane Hoffman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prosecutor- Julia Valenciano. Young, ambitious and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant - David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims - Marquette's own wife and three small children. The plea- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. But the state suspects Marquette's insanity defence is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. Worse, Julia believes Marquette could be responsible for a string of unsolved, brutal homicides. The distraught survivor could just be one of the most prolific and elusive serial killers in Florida's history. The trial will take Julia on a painful personal journey back to a past she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And it will bring her face to face with a future that is so frightening, she's not sure if she even wants to see it.
Download or read book The Role of Mental Illness in Criminal Trials The insanity defense written by Jane Campbell Moriarty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Limiting the Insanity Defense written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Insanity Defense written by Abraham S. Goldstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1967-01-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity defense has become the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, a debate marked by slogans and stereotypes. Mr. Goldstein offers a reasoned study of that debate and the current rules behind the law, as well as a careful examination of what might be expected from any new rules now proposed.
Download or read book D C Anticrime Legislation 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers. S. 484, to authorize pre-trial detention of individuals charged with a felony who have been convicted of a felony previously. S. 1510, to strengthen criminal provisions against obstruction of justice and bribery of law enforcement authorities. S. 1513, to establish a Commission on Revision of the Criminal Laws of D.C. S. 1517, to provide for protective custody of material witnesses. S. 1518, to prescribe procedures for taking of voluntary confessions where Miranda rights have been waived. S. 1519, to make burglary, when committed with possession of a firearm, a crime of violence. S. 1523, to define grounds for successful insanity defense. S. 1524, to provide for arrest without warrant with probable cause. S. 1525, to prohibit the sale of pornography to minors under the age of eighteen. H.R. 10783, to revise generally the D.C. criminal code. Miscellaneous related bills.
Download or read book The Insanity Defense American Developments written by Jane Moriarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the accused is competent to stand trial, whether the plaintiff is competent to accuse, or whether a witness is competent to testify has had a long legal history. Such questions draw legal reasoning into areas of ethical reflection and scientific debate deeply rooted in the moral history of the United States. Mental competence has come to play a central and controversial role in proving guilt, and in evaluating the severity of a crime and its corresponding punishment. This compendium brings together the major legal precedents and legal commentaries that have defined the role of mental illness in criminal trials throughout U.S. history. The reprint collection considers, among other issues, the evolution of the Supreme Court's position on the insanity defense and mental retardation, how these affect one's competency to stand trial or be executed, and how these affect culpability and punishment. Each volume begins with an introductory essay, and includes both cases and commentary. Scholars as well as students will find these volumes a useful research tool.
Download or read book Statutory Instruments written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insanity written by Charles Patrick Ewing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complex of all legal/psychological issues, the insanity defence, has been employed thousands of times, but there is still little understanding by psychologists and lawyers of its proper use. By analysing some of the most well-known insanity cases in legal history, this book sheds light on its peculiarities.