Criminal Insanity
PREDATORS CLASSIFICATION: Criminally Insane Offenders
PREDATORS CLASSIFICATION: Criminally Insane Offenders
Sanity is a legal term, not a medical term. It is possible for a person to be responsible for committing a crime, but not criminally responsible. A sane person knows the difference between right and wrong. An insane offender, a psychotic for example, hears voices and hallucinates, but is usually more dangerous to himself than to other people.
A classic case of an insane offender who went untreated and resulted in tragedy is Calvin, 22, a schizophrenic who heard voices in his head and fantasized about killing. One day because his college roommate would not let him borrow some laundry detergent, Calvin took out a shotgun and killed him. Another case of an insane offender is the highly publicized case of Andrea Yates, who killed her children by drowning them. Yates had a history of mental illness and depression and should have been declared criminally insane, but was given life imprisonment.
Sometimes the system is unable to hold a criminally insane offender. There have been many cases of criminally insane offenders being released from an asylum and then going on to commit more crimes.
Source: Dr. Eric Hickey
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