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Old 12-21-2004, 09:02 PM   #1
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A lot of these forensic shrinks do do
huh huh huh huh. wolf said do do. *shut up beavis!*
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Old 12-23-2004, 07:36 AM   #2
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Just hear on the news...'her exhusband says she often faked pregnancy to get attention'......COOKOO
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Old 12-23-2004, 08:28 AM   #3
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Christ, and if she did ever manage to have a kid of her own, I bet she'd have a raging case of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.
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Old 12-23-2004, 11:10 AM   #4
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No. I just think she'd kill her kid outright when it didn't love her enough.

Munchausen's by Proxy takes far to much planning.
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Old 01-06-2005, 07:49 PM   #5
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Neither should the guards.
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Old 01-07-2005, 12:38 AM   #6
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Neither should the guards.
Hear hear! But then that's why baby sitting the dregs of society is such a high paying, rewarding job.
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Old 01-06-2005, 08:21 PM   #7
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though I do agree with HAppy Monkey wwhy the hell should prison be pleasent?? I would like to see a return to the old twenties styles where you came out dead or convinced not to go back. I have very VERY little concern for the live or happiness of convicted violent felones.

As for the plea. Think about the cases on the news or in the papers or on the net where some ass lost his temper or got drunk or was just an ass but now is gonna plead insane to get either a reduced sentence or get off. Make them plead guilty. They wont be so quick to use the defense. After looking back at the post and checking with some old note on it the prison time after the hospital is usualy minimum security for the term. BUt if you srcew up or relapse as it were it goes back to hard time. As for why anyone would plead it. See above comment. It isnt about getting to plead it. It is about stopping them from geting a easier time because the claim they were nuts.
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Old 01-07-2005, 12:55 AM   #8
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There are crazy people who do things because they are crazy ... acting out of their craziness.

For example ... crazy guy sincerely believes that his parents and sibling have been replaced by identical duplicates but are now demons.

Kills parents, wounds brother, who manages to escape to call police. Crazy guy is apprended.

This is a classic Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.

The guy killed as a direct consequence of his craziness. He did not (probably still does not) understand that he killed his parents. He saved them from the demons. He suffered from a defect of reason so as not to be able to tell right from wrong ... (that's called the M'Naughton Rule) and is the test for insanity in many jurisdictions.

Some jurisdictions also have a notion of Guilty but Mentally Ill. This is often a plea agreement ... the individual pleads guilty, gets mental health treatment, but still serves the term of his sentence. If he's still nuts at the end of it, as far as I am aware the mental health treatment can continue. If the mental illness clears, the jail term stands. I suppose a jury could find for that as well.

NGRIs, since the patient is presumably curable can get released before the criminal penalties would have ended.

Here's another classic Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity. Despite the article being from the Carolinas, the crime happened up near Pottstown. Richard Greist.

He's been petitioning for expansion of privileges, not unlike John Hinkley, Jr.
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Old 01-07-2005, 12:00 PM   #9
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There are crazy people who do things because they are crazy ... acting out of their craziness.
The only issue I have with this is the extremely high, and you'll agree with me on this I think, lack of medical compliance.

How many retreads do you see every year because the get off of their meds?
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Old 01-07-2005, 01:06 PM   #10
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We have our frequent flyers ...

But it's also true that violence occurs in the mentally ill at a lower rate than the general population.

The cliche of the violent crazy person is well know, and well reinforced through movies and tv shows.

Consider ... a mentally ill man threatens to kill his mother with a sledgehammer.

Did the voices tell him to do it?

No. His mom told him his cell phone service was going to be cut off because he doesn't have the money to pay for it.

Crazy people do things for ordinary criminal motivations too, not as a consequence of their mental illness.
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Old 01-07-2005, 01:47 PM   #11
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We have our frequent flyers ...

But it's also true that violence occurs in the mentally ill at a lower rate than the general population.

The cliche of the violent crazy person is well know, and well reinforced through movies and tv shows.

Consider ... a mentally ill man threatens to kill his mother with a sledgehammer.

Did the voices tell him to do it?

No. His mom told him his cell phone service was going to be cut off because he doesn't have the money to pay for it.

Crazy people do things for ordinary criminal motivations too, not as a consequence of their mental illness.
I know, I'm just worried about the retreads and the ones known to be violent.

Some of the ones on our locked, male ward were more entertaining than TV, and definitely not violent.
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Old 01-07-2005, 01:56 PM   #12
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Last night I dealt with one of our frequent flyers. It was cold and wet. We don't often see him in the summer months ...

I had a very pleasant, but rambling conversation with him regarding his having spent Christmas with his family, his belief that he had fathered a child on another mental health consumer who was married to someone else at the time, something about Ted Kennedy that I really didn't get, and whether the Book of Mormon represented divine truth or if he though Joseph Smith was hearing voices and seeing things.

He got loud and threatened to kill the doctor who evaluated him (She's not a doc he knows, so he got away with it, and was admitted). He wouldn't hurt a fly. He knows what he has to say so we get paid by the insurance company for his admission. He's really quite thoughtful.

But in studies, he'd probably get classed as "violent mentally ill" because that info is in his chart.
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