Gender matters in the insanity defense.

Law and Psychology Review | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

To focus on gender is to question everything. (1)

I. INTRODUCTION

Gender has been well-established as a fruitful subject of research with an extensive body of literature. Yet some experts contend that, given the impact gender can have in a court of law, research involving gender and the law has been deficient. (2) In fact, in preparation for a special issue of Law and Human Behavior focused on gender issues, editors performed a search of the journal and located only 6 papers out of 293 between 1990 and 1996 that qualified as gender studies. (3) Of the six ...

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