Ch. 8 Crime and Mental Disorder

Question 1

NGRI

Answer 1

Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Question 2

SMI

Answer 2

Serious Mental Illness

Question 3

Mental Illness

Answer 3

Mental illness is a disorder (some say a disease) of the mind that is judged by experts to interfere substantially with a person’s ability to cope with life on a daily basis.

Question 4

Intellectual Disability

Answer 4

This is a cognitive deficiency that cannot be cured. Intellectual disability was tradition- ally measured by standardized “IQ” tests, but these are increasingly being supplemented by other measures and by observations and interviews.

Question 5

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders

Answer 5

DSM- the guidebook for clinicians seeking to define and diagnose specific mental disorders.

Question 6

International Classification of Disease

Answer 6

ICD- Published by the WHO. Preferred over DSM by some mental health professionals

Question 7

The M’Naghten Rule

Answer 7

the rule states that if a person, because of some mental disease, did not know right from wrong at the time of an unlawful act, or did not know that what he or she was doing was wrong, that person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions.

Question 8

The Brawner Rule

Answer 8

The Brawner Rule, unlike M’Naghten, recognizes partial responsibility for criminal conduct, as well as the possibility of an irresistible impulse beyond one’s control. It also excludes from the definition of mental disease or defect any repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct, an exclusion we referred to earlier in the chapter.

Question 9

The Durham Rule

Answer 9

While the M’Naghten Rule focuses on knowing right from wrong (the mental element in a crime), Durham assumes that one cannot be held responsible if an unlawful action is the product of mental disease or defect.

Question 10

Standard for Criminal Responsibility

Answer 10