The privatization of the civil commitment process and the state action doctrine: have the mentally ill been systematically stripped of their Fourteenth Amendment rights?
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Duquesne law review
دوره 40 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001