Criminal Insanity, with Judy Jackson

The Morbid Anatomy Transmission

Jan 11, 201620:31Society & Culture

The "criminally insane" defense and all its trappings (longer sentences, institutionalization and treatment, etc.) are not as old as you think they are. Judy Jackson tells us about the history of this diagnosis, and imag...

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