A TV Reporter Is Interviewing Students About the Insanity Plea

question 82

Multiple Choice

A TV reporter is interviewing students about the insanity plea.If these students are similar to about 90 percent of the population, which of the following statements will they agree with?

• A)If someone successfully pleads insanity, he or she will spend more time in a mental hospital than in a jail.
• B)There are more mentally ill people in prisons than in mental hospitals.
• C)The insanity defence is not used in enough cases.Too many mentally ill people are in jail instead of in hospitals.
• D)Too many people escape responsibility for their crimes by pleading insanity.