Civil Shoplifting Statutes by State

Thirty-five years of working with civil commitment statutes.

This commentary reflects my 35 years of working with civil commitment statutes, first in Alaska, then in Oregon, and on various committees on the national level. Coming from a background in community and public psychiatry, I have always considered civil commitment to be the most important forensic mental health statute, as the commitment process in any state greatly influences the lives of many...

Specialty board certification and federal civil rights statutes.

Commentary: civil commitment statutes--40 years of circumvention.

There is a longstanding body of literature that describes how states' civil commitment statutes have been stretched or circumvented to accommodate institutional and systemic needs. The paper by Levitt and colleagues provides yet another example of this phenomenon: Arizona's use of its civil commitment statutes to detain unrestorable, incompetent criminal defendants for whom other provisions hav...

Shoplifting

owners. They studied a selected sample of shoplifters; and the results, lucid explained and meticulously charted, are extraordinarily fascinating. , { Here are a few facts taken almost at random, from a mass of intrigU^ material. Shoplifting is mostly done by women, because they go shopping far in?' often than men. Half the men are arrested for book-stealing, which is alfl10 j unknown in women....

Willful Child Abuse and State Reporting Statutes