What Does it Mean to be Criminally Insane

We've all heard the term "Criminally Insane" but what does it actually mean? How can you be insane at the time of a crime, but totally sound of mind during your trial? Let's find out in today's crazy new video!
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[@stevebrownrocks6376]

If you’re not already crazy, going to prison or ESPECIALLY a mental “institution” will certainly make you crazy. Real criminals that go to prison & get released at some point are almost NEVER “rehabbed”. They just learn ways from the other criminals on how to be BETTER at being a criminal! It’s like being in criminal college.

[@parrotproductions101]

Jesus loves you ❤️

[@redheadedpsycho4566]

well said!

[@frequentdisturbance6144]

Yep, prison is like university for criminals, jail is like a school day.

[@stevemartinek7719]

I've been in psych wards, jails and prisons. None of them are beneficial to a mentally ill person.

[@emilykearns3155]

Sounds like Arkham Asylum.

[@bhgtree]

The important thing (imo) is there should be clear definitions, so that those genuinely insane are found to be insane. We hear of people claiming insanity to get lesser sentences and they succeed, while those insane are found guilty and put in prison without the medical care they need.

[@rigidmenace3333]

I, am more intelligent, than an entire agency dedicated to this cause

[@kygytfktvf]

@@rigidmenace3333 if you were you’d know how to use commas.

[@spreadItWide]

@@kygytfktvf umm did you forget one?

[@spreadItWide]

@@kygytfktvf so did I 🤣😂

[@kygytfktvf]

@@spreadItWide LOL

[@DeOneTrueSage]

One thing that stands out to me is that, a person who is deemed criminally insane can't use that defense repeatedly if engaging in criminal activity. So basically almost every Batman villain should be sent to a supermax prison after their first offence instead of Arkham. It is things like this that really take away the believability of things one used to enjoy in their childhood as an adult.

[@gurvmlk]

I feel like the insanity plea in media, and therefore how it's presented to children, is oftentimes portrayed as a sort of get out of jail free card. I mean, you still get locked up, but all you have to do is be like, "I'm insane," to avoid being more severely punished.

[@briannabombshell1921]

An asylum for the criminally insane is worse than prison... they don’t just keep releasing criminally insane people onto the streets they spend more time behind bars with an insanity plea vs had then just pled guilty

[@briannabombshell1921]

@@gurvmlk Well it isn’t a “get out of jail free” card. It’s not like someone gets the insanity plea and their only consequence is court ordered therapy weekly and medication.

[@gurvmlk]

@@briannabombshell1921 That's what I'm saying, because when you see it brought up on television and whatnot, they tend to make it sound much easier and cushier than it actually is. At least from what I've seen, which is admittedly not much since I'm not big on TV in general.

[@freetard1759]

We dont know which state Gotham falls in

[@ryanrain257]

Ive always wonder what would happen if someone had a PTSD blackout episode when it happened what would they do

[@Jin420]

Temporary insanity plea...
The four tests for insanity are the M'Naghten test, the irresistible-impulse test, the Durham rule, and the Model Penal Code test (substantial capacity).
Temporary insanity is claimed as a defense whether or not the accused is mentally stable at the time of trial.

[@lucifer_333_bones7]

You don’t know how ptsd works, do you?

[@kujojack6510]

Depends on what kind of PTSD and the circumstances. If they are in the military, they will be court martial and face UCMJ which is worse than civilian court.
It is hard to tell case by case.

[@lucifer_333_bones7]

@David Lastrapes you truly can’t understand unless you have ptsd yourself. That and ptsd isn’t just reserved for people who survived war and combat.

[@annettecasanova1546]

I have ptsd and my black outs are triggered be extreme anger which leads to a borderline personality. I too have wondering how the law handles that.

[@lynnleigha580]

And the sad part of this is the fact that those who are literally mentally ill, just get locked up and forgot about and those that are just fine (usually people w money) get by with ish and get shorter, if not suspended sentences

[@derekclawson5707]

Justice only usually goes to those who can AFFORD justice..

[@derekclawson5707]

Asylums are basically the equivalent of a prison as well.

[@starling1226]

@@derekclawson5707 So true, staff are horrible and always are on some kind of power trip. The only difference is that they can pump you full of tranquilizers when you act up.

[@mrslcom]

The bar for criminally insane should be set lower so that there’s a better chance for those with mental problems to be able to seek help instead of prison. Meanwhile the sentences should automatically be life in a mental institution until the person is completely healed. This will remove the incentive for true criminals to take the insanity plea knowing that they will more likely be locked up for life in a mental hospital subjected to experimental treatments.

[@Arbiter8655]

Which can be abused or misused to hold someone indefinitely AND also be a deterrent for people that need ACTUAL help or did u forget about them.

[@daniburke9452]

It'd cost the state more then prison

[@zk0rned]

@@Arbiter8655 that's called having actual professionals to diagnose mental ill people instead of people that have no business in making that decision

[@Arbiter8655]

@@zk0rned where ever there are humans, there is a lot of space for corruption and incompetence.

[@LadyAngelaYaYa1966]

I don’t think anyone is subjected to experimental treatments these days🤣😂

[@JetsetStealth]

i work at a phychiatric facility (think locked hospital, nothing like an asylum from movies), and doctors talk about their time with criminally insane patients. they pretty much ALWAYS say jail time is better than successfully pleading insanity. pretty much worldwide, jails offer better day to day conditions, and at least offer a chance at getting out depending on the sentence. the same can absolutely not be said for "insane asylums". most people typically stay for life and conditions are worse despite having different privileges.

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

Do you get to play basketball with House MD?

[@theghostreckon69420]

Criminally insane ≠ psychotic lunatic
Now I know why

[@RiVer-Parish]

The Joker would make a great Professor to teach this course. 😆🤣😂

[@madcerebrum]

1% of defenses are insanity pleas, and 25% of them are succesful-so 1 out of 400 defendants are successfully deemed criminally insane 😌

[@sofakingwetahded9331]

What is there was 1400 cases drawn from 🧐😉

[@madcerebrum]

@@sofakingwetahded9331 I'm very sorry, I did not understand your sentence. Could you reformulate that for me please?

[@nagi9990]

I think they’re asking for a source

[@sofakingwetahded9331]

@@madcerebrum yea asking what number u started from to get 1/400 cases my bad 😂

[@nhnova1452]

@@nagi9990 e

[@endoetz]

The Infographics Show: "What Does it Mean to be Criminally Insane"
Criminals: "Noted"

[@briannabombshell1921]

There would be nothing to gain from this plea unless they wanted to escape the death penalty. They’re still locked up in a lunatic asylum for the criminally insane, and are locked up twice as long had they chosen to just plea guilty

[@alexvelez658]

Dahmer needed to get drunk to dismember the bodies. Prosecution proved that he was well aware of what he was doing and for him to stomach dismemberment of the bodies he needed to get drunk. That was why his insanity plea was turned down.

[@jjdefeo7413]

As someone from new hampshire, we have a lot of functions for people to get away with crimes from legal technicalities.
Another example is that it is a protected right under our state constitution to attempt to overthrow the state government if you believe that it is acting against the interest of people, and is not being run in Good will. (Article 10 of the state constitution)

[@StoutProper]

Is this because it’s full of rich people who like getting away with stuff?

[@jjdefeo7413]

@@StoutProper funny enough, it's quite the opposite. Most of the protections were written back in the 1700s at the very start of the nation and the state of NH's existence. Most of the protections are in the equivalent of the Bill of Rights but for the State of New Hampshire, and are made for one thing but also apply to others and those other uses are generally what make up legal defenses that are mounted via those processes

[@StoutProper]

@@jjdefeo7413 and the people who drew these protections up, and have been interpreting them ever since, are wealthy?

[@jjdefeo7413]

@@StoutProper not specifically. Judges aren't necessarily wealthy, especially at the state level

[@StoutProper]

@@jjdefeo7413 define 'especially'. I'm willing to bet they're easily in the top ten percent of earners in the state, making them especially wealthy by 90% of the state's standards

[@planecomet4362]

The best show

[@ponncik5004]

YES

[@thomasthornton2233]

Yes

[@umr4h138]

Kurzgesagt is better

[@harambeuzamaki2985]

Darrynn Brown. Dallas, Texas. March 2021. Declared “criminally incompetent” unable to stand trial. He broke into a neighbors house and kidnapped a 4 year old and later stabbed him to death. Texas law is as tough as they come but they got that one wrong

[@tonk_0139]

how to be criminally insane: killing someone by leading them step on a lego

[@martinphilip8998]

Letting?

[@kfdjhnhurjnnbjhu3ip410]

unfunny

[@phantom_1155]

Hello love your videos keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Conky88]

I once knew a guy who stuffed peanut butter down his pants and in court he reached in grabbed a handful and took a bite out of it. He got off with clinically insane and got two years instead of 10 for the crime.

[@justanotherrandomguyinthec1835]

Picturing that is just disgusting beyond belief

[@dollpickle]

what crime did he commit ?

[@WaituSnaiku]

What did he do

[@jonineddie9311]

@@dollpickle he put peanut butter down his pants.

[@dollpickle]

@@jonineddie9311 oh i thought he did something bad and then had peanut butter in his pants in court for some reason

[@user-mf8jp4kv8h]

I heard its way worse to go into an asylum than an actual prison.

[@chrisnichols9014]

Tell Joker that. He seems to love it.

[@user-gt3gy6en9z]

it is worse you have more freedom in prison or jail than in a mental facility plus you get discredited and since people think or assume or have you labeled you mentally ill how are they going to believe what you're saying is true and u don't have the same rights as a inmate doing time behind bars in prison or jail

[@nicholasmiller1268]

You guys should have went into the McNaughten Test... his full name is Daniel McNaughten.

[@Jin420]

Good info for people to know. 💯

[@Kyle_Young]

I eat pizza from the crust to the tip, am I criminally insane?

[@nagroska5696]

No u r the #1 wanted in the FBI list

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

no, almost everyone does that

[@alwayswatchingfromabove]

i eat tacos from the top and not the side. Am i criminally insane?

[@cc2fresh]

You have passed insanity at this point

[@Donald_Trump_2024]

@@alwayswatchingfromabove no

[@violenceisfun991]

The courts deemed me criminally insane when i was a teenager. I had to spend 30 months at St Andrews in Northampton under section 37. I was fine before i went in but the things i saw there messed me up proper

[@plutohr]

Was about to go to bed, but then infographics uploads.
Yea i got time

[@bigbrotheriswatchingyou9535]

What if your insane, but pleaded down to a lesser charge of misdemeanor, but with special circumstances?

[@richardnixon4670]

Ah another great vid

[@TobissaSenman]

I love this channel

[@glennbabic5954]

I got out of a public urination charge because I was drunk. I told the judge I didn't know I was committing a crime at the time and he nodded and let me off.

[@HunterVook]

Jain > Asylum. At least you get out of jail when your sentence is over.

[@jms4979]

what if you get the death sentence?

[@HunterVook]

@@jms4979 even better, then I don't have to suffer for the rest of my life.

[@kiddhall7391]

Can you do a video about judges? What makes a person suitable to be a judge? Can they just send everyone and anyone they meet to jail? When “evil” people get lighter sentences people often blames the system as a whole but the judges make the call no? I’ve never been to court so I know nothing😊 can I get a shoutout if you make this video?😁

[@GioGio_1208]

Question: What does it mean to be Criminally Insane
Answer: If you are in Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane

[@HisMajesty.]

Huh

[@GioGio_1208]

@@HisMajesty. it means if you are in arkham asylum you are criminally insane

[@HisMajesty.]

@@GioGio_1208 Arkham has non criminals if that’s what you’re asking it’s a psychiatric clinic after all the criminals have a different ward

[@GioGio_1208]

ok

[@GioGio_1208]

@@HisMajesty. didnt know that

[@l0v3kam]

the topic: 🪦👹⚰️🔪😵‍💫
the music: 🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾

[@richboyprado]

The infographic illustrations: 😀🙂🤠🥳

[@dxtnguyxn4179]

Me: read the title
Me: sweat nervously

[@Nana-tj2mm]

I WENT TO A UNIVERSITY THAT HAD A CRIMINALLY INSANE ASYLUM CLOSE BY. I ALWAYS WANTED TO VISIT AND SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE. MY DEGREE WAS IN PSYCHOLOGY!!!!!!

[@hatetheusername]

there’s a couple of good documentaries that show what’s it’s like in there

[@Jessicahasopinions]

As a kid I wanted to be a psychologist for the criminally insane

[@chrisnichols9014]

You must love Batman.

[@bradleymasters1456]

This clears up prison archietect greatly.
I dont understand the CI in it ty infographics

[@DanDCool]

Most criminals are criminally insane or are affected by rage and anger and still get punished..

[@JK-gm6kk]

I'm afraid expulsions the only answer. It's the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane

[@joule400]

Unless youre gonna be sent to death row is pleading insanity ever good, doesnt that just lead to life in mental ward, which is essentially a life in prison

[@Alex-ql9gw]

so...a mental person can still have their freedom if the court defines them criminally insane. Imagine telling the victim's family.

[@pbschroeder]

“I’m hungry can I have a sandwich?” LOL😂

[@Idk-dc7hv]

People are gonna bring politics into this for no reason. I bet $50 on that

[@JCavinee]

Duh, this is the internet

[@alboy0737]

Agreed

[@sonjalau8486]

There are already comments of this type.Congratulations you won 50$

[@Idk-dc7hv]

@@sonjalau8486 I knew it

[@alboy0737]

@@Idk-dc7hv couldn’t say it any better mate. These people are a circus.

[@illegal7.62rounds5]

Heating up your pillow to be warm on both sides when you sleep.

[@SadForLyf]

Next video "where you go,and how it looks after you were trialed criminally insane". Always wondered. ^^

[@Alverant]

I wish you would have included why we have an insanity defense.

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

Because of Lenny!

[@Plantrum]

A mental hospital seems worse than prison to me :/

[@jokerbejoking]

To be insane criminally

[@user-ih8ph7qk5p]

Being set up to be murdered, for months, being under 24 7 illegal surveillance, stalked, followed is one way to push someone to being criminally insane

[@KristophM]

Being stuck in an insane asylum would definitely be worse than prison.

[@Friendship1nmillion]

🤷

[@tealnoise]

Yet these people think it'll be better but don't really realize what they're getting into

[@machiavellllia]

You have no idea how bad prison really is…

[@Flamsterette]

I love that topic!

[@Flamsterette]

@@beepbopboop9926 Speak English, not unintelligible gibberish.

[@alboy0737]

@@Flamsterette I believe this man is speaking some form of alien language my good sir.

[@Flamsterette]

@@alboy0737 I'm not a sir.

[@alboy0737]

@@Flamsterette ok then, IT is that better?

[@Flamsterette]

@@alboy0737 You're that disrespectful troll.

[@gabr.7878]

Nice video

[@russellsales7796]

It means you don’t like pineapples on pizza.

[@potatoboooi5168]

Also if you want to go to Brazil

[@cpd9148]

Pleading insane in NH is very rare

[@Rileyxray]

Take a shot every time you hear criminally insane

[@JCavinee]

Of heroine?

[@andrewyerian214]

Of bourbon?

[@BingBongBoom]

please make a video on CTSFO

[@mossyoak2222]

If you don’t call a spork the superior eating utensil I shall become criminally insane.

[@kygytfktvf]

bars.

[@bobonetwentyeleventwenty6395]

Me: time to go to bed
The Infographics Show: yeah how bout no

[@Nurichiri]

Would someone who did something due to genuine religious conviction that they were doing the right thing also be considered criminally insane?

[@gurvmlk]

Don't worry. All you have to do to win an insanity plea is point out to the judge that you hired a giant space chicken to defend you in court.

[@leviarcher1167]

Earliest I’ve ever been to a new upload

[@mjag2834]

The belief that your one step ahead of the average man and take advantage of this erroneous belief but finding that your seven steps behind your own government in whatever country you reside in.

[@justastaythatwillnotbename2990]

Time to start practicing from now

[@teapartytaIes]

"Not know what they’re doing”
*one night i went to get some water but got milk instead and tried opening it from the thing in top instead of the cap and accidentally spilled it everywhere and instead of paper towels i was trying to get paper plates.*

[@Davhy]

I always watch the videos at night

[@ileilanambingaamtheleader1154]

I am glad I am not criminally insane

[@arielle5137]

i think people forget that you don't want to be found criminally insane if you truly aren't. mental asylums are one of the worst places you can be. it is easy to convince someone you're crazy, but near impossible to convince someone you're sane. you will most likely spend the rest of your life in an asylum if found criminally insane and put on a bunch of severe medications. if you go to prison, however, you get to leave once your time is served, and even get out early due to good behavior. most of the time, prison isn't horrible like tv makes it out to be.

[@thenumbersw]

It will take some time to get out of us but I am definitely not staying here.

[@markrowland1366]

My wife was criminally insane but she had boarder line personality disorder, a condition which is confused with paranoia. She had been telling lies about me from when we first met. If I were as she insisted, she would have had no inclination to keep my company.

[@robertrobinson3788]

It's a college for insanity 😃

[@joewiley6049]

From house painter to attempted podium painter

[@melissapinson1944]

The happiest man on death row was criminally insane (but he was murdered not executed may he rest well)

[@dustydragon9976]

He was not criminally insane, he had a learning disorder

[@lilplump4617]

can you do a video of the FBI's highest reward for capturing someone

[@aimshot43clips14]

He made one recently I think?

[@lilplump4617]

@@aimshot43clips14 I think it was most wanted buy the FBI

[@kamilkarnale3585]

How come most of these criminals understand how to avoid their loss?

[@kennethakin6322]

Sane and insane is all about perception, there’s no such thing as crazy there’s only the perception of one group tried against another group.

[@greensoul8121]

Do the crime, pay the same way you committed

[@redwardranger7034]

Now, I remember a local movie where their escape plan is to make it so that they are insane so they'll be send in a mental institution which they would escape. How did they do it? The filled a stool sample cup with peanut butter and ate it during court session.

[@briannabombshell1921]

A mental institution for the criminally insane is not easy to just escape... nor is it a get out of jail free card.

[@romantic_hippie]

Wait.....so if someone is found criminally insane after committing a deadly crime, they can be released if the court thinks they aren't a danger? Even though they committed a deadly crime? WUT!

[@rokomarinovic3293]

Bruh nobody mentioned Criminally Insane by Slayer

[@melethalewis9315]

Some people be criminally insane by the way they see the person's life really is and they should look at the history of the person who has problems with their life.🤔😨😱

[@gamersens2363]

Watch the movie Primal Fear. It’s a fantastic movie about a killer and how he pleaded criminally insane! (It’s a fictional movie)

[@jengleheimerschmitt7941]

That is a terrific movie.

[@ao-phantom6293]

Next video:what does it mean to be criminally underrated

[@whacxs4585]

how do you walk up to some one and miss twice

[@oddshot60]

"What Does it Mean to be Criminally Insane?" Are you talking to me? Do you mean me, personally? Well, I'm kinda restricted in what I can do and where I can go. And then there is this constant feeling that people are watching me all the time ... which they kinda are.

[@JayQuelinx]

More psychology videos>>>>

[@tubbytubbersun]

You can tell that someone is criminally insane if they genuinely enjoy the song bodies

[@Rex-he8mu]

Interesting

[@tacticalbusdriver6630]

What about the “ brown paper bag “ test 🤔

[@doctordingo1670]

Your honor I couldn't have been aware of my crimes, I was sleep murdering.

[@jgrj52]

That has actually happened. The Ken Parks case

[@bloopbloop9687]

on an unrelated note new Hampshire is my favorite state

[@Fowsta]

I actually heard of the Theodore Roosevelt thing.

[@thatoneguy-ie5qf]

Nobody:
Kids after 20 assignments over summer

[@beardedroofer]

Reopen mental institutions.

[@sanjanay3142]

Please make a video on peter kurten , a serial killer !! Please

[@Iliketape]

The white decor is just making someone more insane

[@surangirdharie1626]

Yes

[@cassiecasiano2500]

I went in for possession, as in demons, I came out a racketeer. 😂🤣🤔😬

[@twocvbloke]

What's criminally insane is the UK tory government taking £20 a week off people who need it, but cry wolf if anyone dares take away their £25-a-day parliamentary meal allowance...

[@jackzimmy8461]

Last week Michael Gove wriggled out of a £5 entrance fee. *Five. Pounds.* Tories are unpleasantly brilliant at hitting our wallets without ever opening theirs.

[@nicolefj]

i have tourette syndrome. what if i accidentally say stabbed someone because of a tic?

[@Kastagir]

So many videos a day lol

[@chopchop1488]

I'm not a criminal
Just a bit insane🤪🤪

[@Idk-dc7hv]

No, no you’re not