NOT SO NUTTY.

Examines key policies surrounding the use of insanity defense in the U.S. Aspects and considerations in criminal law; Attention towards basic questions about the bounds of responsibility that cannot be scientifically established; Need of standards and reform of insanity laws; Protection of insanity acquitees from being consigned indefinitely to institutions that are worse than prisons; Reversal of direction in the insanity defense; Court cases which used the insanity defense; Information that a new federal insanity defense excluded the notion of insanity for a person who knew right from wrong but lost self-control.