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Item Title
Crime and Insanity
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Modlin, Herbert
Guest
Menninger, W. Walter
Guest
Spring, Raymond L.
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedApril 19, 1984
Description
Our three guests bring lucidity as well as expertise to a question that has been
muddled by generations of editorialists and defense lawyers. RLS: "The insanity
defense really grew out of the attempt by judges three hundred years ago and more to try to explain to juries a very simple concept, and that is that all crimes require not only an act but a certain state of mind... One who is so dispossessed of reason that he cannot form that intent obviously cannot be guilty of a crime." ... WWM: "I think it's important to differentiate between explaining why behavior takes place and excusing it. ... People tend to take explanations to be equated with excusing, and that's why psychiatry sometimes gets a bad mark."
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Country of Origin
Place RecordedTopeka, Kansas, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0598
Record Number80040.840
NotesVideo not currently available for purchase.
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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