Characteristics Dispositions and Subsequent Arrests of Defendants Pleading Insanity in a Rural State

• NCJ Number: 106889
• Journal: Journal of Psychiatry and Law Volume: 11 Issue: 3 Dated: (Fall 1983) Pages: 345-360
• Author(s): R L Randolph; R A Pasewark
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 16 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Of 68 defendants pleading insanity in Wyoming in 1967-68, 2 were adjudicated insane.

Abstract

Defendants were primarily white, unskilled, or semiskilled males who had not completed high school. Their histories tended to be characterized by sporadic employment, substance abuse, and prior arrests. Although only two were adjudicated insane, the rates of dismissal and nolle prosequi were considerably higher than those for other arrestees. (Publisher abstract)