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Full-Text Articles in Law
"We're Only Trying To Help": The Burden And Standard Of Proof In Short-Term Civil Commitment, Lynne N. Henderson
"We're Only Trying To Help": The Burden And Standard Of Proof In Short-Term Civil Commitment, Lynne N. Henderson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Right To Voluntary, Compensated, Therapeutic Work As Part Of The Right To Treatment: A New Theory In The Aftermath Of Souder, Michael L. Perlin
Right To Voluntary, Compensated, Therapeutic Work As Part Of The Right To Treatment: A New Theory In The Aftermath Of Souder, Michael L. Perlin
Articles & Chapters
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Regional Commissions To Monitor Confinement Institutions: A Proposal, Arthur R. Landever
Regional Commissions To Monitor Confinement Institutions: A Proposal, Arthur R. Landever
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
O N ANY GIVEN DAY, THERE ARE MORE THAN one million persons involuntarily confined within government institutions.1 Those in custody whether committed to mental institutions, jails, juvenile facilities, or prisons, are the invisible Americans. Until recently, most of us on the outside were not particularly concerned about their lot. To the extent that we knew of their existence, we were relieved that they were out of our immediate neighborhoods and that we were "protected" from them. Increasingly, however, newspaper headlines or television screens have begun to show glimpses of these inmates as they riot; widespread abuses are exposed, and authorities …
Judicial Intervention As A Psychiatric Therapy Tool, Eleanor A. Blackley
Judicial Intervention As A Psychiatric Therapy Tool, Eleanor A. Blackley
Cleveland State Law Review
Commitment to a mental institution by itself does not, in all states, suspend civil rights. The court psychiatric unit is an early outpost of a preventive, coordinative venture which gives, at long last, practical humane expression to protection of and consideration for the civil rights of the mentally ill adult involuntary patient whose condition obstructs his capacity to demand such safeguards himself. Persons suffering from mental disorders are frequently too disabled to claim their civil rights themselves.