Decade: 21st Century

Insanity Defense illustration in Harper's Weekly, February 27, 1859. Library of Congress.

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The Commonwealth Fund and the “Insanity Defense”: Unexpected Outcomes

Our understanding of the insanity defense relies on a book that was an unintended outcome of a Commonwealth Fund grant.