Hi Everyone! With each high profile shooting, from the school shootings to recently Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords being shot, the argument of whether the assailant is Insane or Guilty but certainly Mentally Ill comes up.
A recent article in Scientific American Mind called "The Insanity Verdict On Trial" by Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz discusses the difference between the two, how widely they are misunderstood & how rarely a defense of Insanity is used and successfully won in the courts.
