A Commentary: Why Civil Commitment Laws Don't Work the Way They're Supposed To
نویسنده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
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...
متن کاملThe Customary Implied Condition of Safety Obligation in Medical Contracts
Background and Aim: The safety commitment of the physician and the hospital against the patient has been accepted in such a way that various laws, regulations and instrucions has been set it in first field, but the source of safety commitment in this type of contract are not limited to the rules of the subject and custom and customary rules independed of other factors and as one of the of firs...
متن کاملThirty-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...
متن کاملCommentary: civil commitment and its reform.
Internationally, civil commitment laws have gone through substantial reforms in the past 50 years. Discernible shifts from the medically paternalistic to the excessively legalistic may be giving way to a blending of legislative intent under the rubric of therapeutic jurisprudence. In the light of those international movements, Shao and Xie describe how China's new mental health law shows the im...
متن کاملCommentary: inventing diagnosis for civil commitment of rapists.
In the past two decades, public fear and antipathy toward sexual offenders have led to public registries of their names and addresses, longer prison sentences, consideration of the death penalty, and civil commitment laws that allow potentially lifetime preventive detention after these offenders complete prison sentences. Twenty states and the federal government have enacted such civil commitme...
متن کامل