Who is this unit designed for?
What is the discipline of reading about?
How does the law determine insanity?
Why teach the insanity pleas in the criminal justice system?
How do we as a society discriminate between who is disturbed and who isn’t?
What are the terms used to describe insanity?
The Connecticut state Statues defining the insanity plea.
Has there always been “insanity” or is it an idea developed in the 19th century?
Do we have a society that fosters insanity?
What texts will be used to teach the distinctions between insanity?
Compulsion
Lisa Bright and Dark
Don’t Blame the Children
The Case of Joy Baker
The Case of Francis Pollard
Lesson Plans I, II, III, IV
Student Resources
Teacher Bibliography