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Book Review Of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, And The Law, Russell P. Norman
Book Review Of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, And The Law, Russell P. Norman
William & Mary Law Review
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Disposition Of The Irresponsible: Protection Following Commitment, Travis H. Lewin
Disposition Of The Irresponsible: Protection Following Commitment, Travis H. Lewin
Michigan Law Review
Each year more of our fellow citizens are involuntarily committed to a mental institution of one sort or another than are incarcerated for the commission of a crime. To those committed, the walls and barred windows of the hospital, as well as the treatment and mode of living, are probably not significantly different from those of a prison. This is particularly the case with those confined for treatment by court order or by some special statutory procedure following acquittal of a crime on grounds of insanity. Yet these mentally ill, even after perpetrating what would otherwise have been a criminal …