Why is it difficult to evaluate insanity? What factors make it different from the evaluation of competency to stand trial?

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• Studies show that forensic experts often disagree on whether the defendant meets the insanity standard.
• Insanity refers to the time of the crime and is always evaluated retrospectively, unlike CST.
• It is often hard to reconstruct the defendant's state of mind as it was in the past (during the commission of the crime).
• The elements of the insanity standard are more vague than those for CST.
• Different jurisdictions have different insanity standards, which makes it difficult to develop uniform tests or techniques for establishing insanity.

Why Is It Difficult to Evaluate Insanity? What Factors Make