What difficulties might forensic psychiatric professionals confront in determining legal insanity when evaluating a defendant's mental condition at the time of the crime?
Mental life can be annoyingly subjective, and often the only clues are behaviours. However if there is a disease such as cancer, or a tumour in the brain and many other neurological conditions can be provided as part of a medical report.
Insanity itself might be a common enough defense, but is much less successful then what people might think. Self-reports by the perpetrator may be lacking honesty, and thus why development of communication skills are vital.
It can often be difficult to construct an accurate narrative about what happened at the time of the crime, especially if there are no witnesses to see behavioral signs and the longer ago the crime occurred the less people will remember
Emily raised some great points there.
Mental life can be annoyingly subjective, and often the only clues are behaviours. However if there is a disease such as cancer, or a tumour in the brain and many other neurological conditions can be provided as part of a medical report.
Insanity itself might be a common enough defense, but is much less successful then what people might think. Self-reports by the perpetrator may be lacking honesty, and thus why development of communication skills are vital.
It can often be difficult to construct an accurate narrative about what happened at the time of the crime, especially if there are no witnesses to see behavioral signs and the longer ago the crime occurred the less people will remember