An empirical investigation of insanity defense attitudes: Exploring factors related to bias

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-161

  Bloechl, Angela L ^a   Vitacco, Michael J ^b   Neumann, Craig S ^c   Erickson, Steven E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b Mendota Mental Health Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Capital punishment; Insanity defense

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREDICTION; PUNISHMENT; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSANITY DEFENSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33847271077     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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