treatment of the criminally insane theme
We are asked how the criminally insane ought to be treated. Just like any other prisoner, or with more compassion?
6 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | choice | The story concerns a ward in a mental institution and its 18 patients, some of whom were there voluntarily and some of whom were committed. Notably, the main protagonist, McMurphy, was highly intelligent and probably not mentally ill in any way, but was nevertheless subjected to electric shock treatment and ultimately a lobotomization that left him practically a vegetable. |
| tos3x16 | choice | The viewer is shown a future vision of prison conditions for the criminally insane. |
| futurama3x11 | major | We say how the robots were treated in a robot insane asylum. |
| tng6x21 | major | Commander Riker was considered criminally insane and we saw how he was treated in an alien mental institution. |
| tos1x10 | major | Dr. Tristan Adams was using his experimental "neural neutralizer" machine to effectively lobotomize the criminally insane patients under his care. |
| ahp2x39 | minor | The story presupposes that mentally deranged criminals are to be put in asylums rather than locked in jail. |