OBJECTIVES Mental health laws set criteria that limit the use of involuntary admission to specific circumstances, and clinicians are expected to justify the lawfulness of such detention by referral to these criteria. The South Australian Mental Health Act 1993 required grounds to be documented on the detention form, specifically with respect to the presence of a mental illness, risk to self or ...

Juvenile offenders have disproportionately high rates of psychiatric and substance use disorders relative to their nonoffending counterparts. Less is known about the impact of psychiatric and substance use disorders on repeat juvenile justice involvement among juveniles specifically referred for forensic mental health evaluations. We describe the demographic, psychiatric, and legal history back...

Preventive detention schemes that aim to protect the community from certain 'dangerous' individuals have long existed. While risk assessment is now pervasive in the management and treatment of many individuals, it raises particular issues when a person's liberty is at stake on the basis of what that person might do. This R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture addresses the ethical issues raised by mental ...

Few decisions in the criminal justice process are as consequential as the determination of bail. Indeed, recent empirical research finds that pre-trial detention imposes substantial long-term costs on defendants and society. Defendants who are detained before trial are more likely to plead guilty, less likely to be employed, and less likely to access social safety net programs for several years...

This article analyzes the coexisting meanings, interpretations and functions underlying varying uses of immigration detention in Swiss cantons. The authors argue that cantonal bureaucracies decide on administrative according to different intertwined implementation rationales, revealing reasonings which shape its practice. highlights significant variation subnational policies practices with rega...

Background. On January 13, 2014 a previously healthy 43 year old male detainee who had been in custody for 323 days was evaluated for fever, unilateral parotid gland swelling and pain; he was referred to a local hospital given hemodynamic instability. In the hospital he was treated empirically for bacterial parotitis with intravenous vancomycin and was serologically evaluated for possible mumps...

OBJECTIVES Many adolescents admitted to detention facilities have serious mental and physical health problems. Little is known about policies for the delivery of mental and physical health care in these settings. Our objective was to describe current health care policies in U.S. detention facilities. METHOD Telephone interviews were requested from 83 juvenile detention facility administrators...

The bulk of studies pertaining to addiction among delinquents have been conducted on male subjects. However, the few studies examining female inmates show that a significant proportion of them present an addictive disorder. Furthermore, the HIV infection rate is higher among these women than among incarcerated men. This study attempts to verify if women presenting a combination of criminal and ...