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Criminal Insanity, with Judy Jackson

Jan 11, 201621 min
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Episode description

The "criminally insane" defense and all its trappings (longer sentences, institutionalization and treatment, etc.) are not as old as you think they are. Judy Jackson tells us about the history of this diagnosis, and imagines what life in the asylum must have been like way back when.
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