Least Restrictive Environment and the Courts

Civil rights for people with disabilities: obstacles related to the least restrictive environment mandate.

State and other social service agencies as well as service providers are governed by laws that often provide unclear guidance regarding the rights of people with disabilities. Although some standards can be, and have been, developed to protect the rights of people with disabilities, all people with disabilities are not the same and therefore, each can require very different types of accommodati...

Community treatment orders and Nova Scotia--the least restrictive alternative?

CTO/IOC legislation is a bewildering array of presumptions and inconsistencies. It is a reaction to the inherent difficulties of de-institutionalizing treatment into the community and has been based on heated arguments of misconceptions and misunderstandings of various proponents and opponents of CTOs/IOC. Legislators in the United Stated have implemented widely varying legislation over the pas...

Least-restrictive move-blocking model predictive control

The authors recently proposed an approach to enforce strong feasibility in moveblocking model predictive control problems. In this paper the approach is utilized to design strong model predictive control problems which generate least restrictive controllers. The domains of different move-blocking regimes are thus equal and the same as the non-moveblocking maximum. This allows comparison of diff...

The Verdict on Drug Courts and Other Problem-Solving Courts

Scientists, in contrast, rarely speak of verdicts. To the scientist, virtually all conclusions are provisional and subject to revision as new data become available. Much of what is believed to be true turns out, after the collection of more information, to be only partially true, conditionally true, or sometimes outright false.1 It is, therefore, most prudent to withhold final judgment until al...

Criminologist and the Courts