For the Insanity Defense to Be Used Successfully Today, It

question 65

Multiple Choice

For the insanity defense to be used successfully today, it is no longer sufficient to demonstrate that the defendant suffers from a mental illness that causes him or her to be unable to know right from wrong. Rather, in some U.S. jurisdictions, the mental illness must be so "severe" that the defendant did not even know what he or she was doing. This is an example of

• A) Social context.
• B) Putative backlash.
• C) Vindication.
• D) All of the above.

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