It would seem it would be an advantage to pretend to be insane to avoid being found guilty so how do they determine if someone is truly insane or just pretending to be?
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So they’re not really guaging “crazy”. You can act hog wild and still be competent mentally.
They’re trying to figure out if the suspect did anything to mitigate blame being placed on them. The logic behind it being “if the suspect understood it was wrong so much that they hid evidence, told specifically purposeful lies to avoid being blamed or even placed at the scene, etc, they were not in psychosis or any other form of severe disconnect from reality to not understand they were committing a crime”.
The one evaluating a suspect is trying to see if the suspect knew what they did was illegal at any point.
That’s why some people fake schizophrenia – to avoid responsibility.
Not what you know about schizophrenia and what it *genuinely* looks like to disconnect from reality, but for explanation’s sake, imagine someone deadass telling you a story that makes 0 sense after a minute of talking, and they are deadass taking themselves and this story seriously and believe their actions were justifed whether it’s because a voice or god told them to, or because they were acting against some imaginary nefarious entity. Sometimes the storyteller and story won’t even make coherent sense past a sentence or two because they jump around concepts so much.
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