an increase of 188 cases during the year 1929." On the same date there were 1,327 defectives on licence from Institutions. The development, therefore, of this form of care during the intervening years has been steady, and is progressing, partly owing to the continued delay in the provision of institutional accommodation, and more particularly owing to its proved value. The Guardianship Society ...

Third party policing’ describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments and other regulators, and business owners, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. In third party policing, the police create crime control guardians in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absen...

Age of majority refers to when a state legally considers person be an “adult.” For young adults with extensive support needs, this is often time individualized education program (IEP) teams discuss issues related student decision-making, guardianship, and alternatives guardianship. The purpose article provide IEP considerations prepare families (i.e., parents their needs) for age majority. five...

Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires states parties to ensure that persons with disabilities "enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life". This column explores what is meant by "legal capacity" and its constituent elements of legal standing and legal agency. It outlines recent research on what is meant by ...

Increasingly, grandparents are raising grandchildren because of the absence of the parental generation due to HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. However, few studies have explored the strategies and plans of grandparents for the future care of their grandchildren in case they can no longer provide care. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 21 grandparent caregivers and se...

Aims and method To examine how capacity is recorded in practice and compare this with the statutory definition, medical reports accompanying a random 10% sample (183 applications; 360 reports) of guardianship applications granted in 2011-2012 were examined. Results Clinicians did not explicitly use the statutory definition of capacity in 47.5% of reports. Over half of applications (56.4%) did n...

Older adults who have reduced decision-making capacity and no family or friends to compensate for these deficiencies are known as unbefriended and require a public guardian. The purpose of this study was to review the peer-reviewed and grey literature to determine the scope of available research on unbefriended older adults in Canada and the United States. We found limited research examining un...

II. BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 A. Ms. Schiavo’s Illness and Incapacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 B. Medical Malpractice Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 C. The Litigation: Regarding the Guardianship of Theresa Marie Schiavo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...