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civil commitment

Description: A legal process for involuntarily placing a person in treatment or care, commonly in the context of serious mental illness or substance use.
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Violence by People Discharged From Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities and by Others in the Same Neighborhoods
1998 · Henry J. Steadman, Edward P. Mulvey, et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry · 1,442
Persons With Severe Mental Illness in Jails and Prisons: A Review
1998 · H. Richard Lamb, Linda E. Weinberger · Psychiatric Services · 707
Psychopathy as a Risk Factor for Violence
1999 · Robert D. Hare · Psychiatric Quarterly · 395
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry
1964 · David Stafford-Clark, Thomas S. Szasz · The Yale Law Journal · 361
Treatment of Drug Abuse
1990 · M. Douglas Anglin, Yih-Ing Hser · Crime and Justice · 302
societal reaction to sex offenders: a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability
2004 · James F. Quinn, Craig J. Forsyth, et al. · Deviant Behavior · 248
Fusion of mental health and incapacity legislation
2006 · John Dawson, George Szmukler · The British Journal of Psychiatry · 246
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Are Sex Offenders Dangerous?*
2003 · LISA L. SAMPLE, TIMOTHY M. BRAY · Criminology & Public Policy · 236
Predictors of violence in civilly committed acute psychiatric patients
1988 · D E McNiel, R L Binder, et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 216
Social Policies Designed to Prevent Sexual Violence
2007 · Jill S. Levenson, David A. D'Amora · Criminal Justice Policy Review · 195
Almost a Revolution: Mental Health Law and the Limits of Change
1994 · Paul S. Appelbaum · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · 169
Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
1990 · Judith M. Hughes, Andrew Scull · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 167
Categorization of Aggressive Acts Committed by Chronically Assaultive State Hospital Patients
2007 · C. D. Quanbeck, B. E. McDermott, et al. · Psychiatric Services · 166
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment.
1987 · Edward P. Mulvey, Jeffrey L. Geller, et al. · American Psychologist · 154
Are Sex Offenders Treatable? A Research Overview
1999 · Linda S. Grossman, Brian Martis, et al. · Psychiatric Services · 143
Dimensions Associated with Assessments of Sex Offender Recidivism Risk
2002 · Caton F. Roberts, Dennis M. Doren, et al. · Criminal Justice and Behavior · 141
Civil commitment in the United States.
2010 · Megan Testa, Sara G West · PubMed · 140
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry: An Inquiry into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices
1965 · Jay Haley, Thomas S. Szasz · California Law Review · 140
Sexual Predators and Social Policy
1998 · Roxanne Lieb, Vernon Quinsey, et al. · Crime and Justice · 137
Sex offender as homo sacer
2009 · Dale Spencer · Punishment & Society · 135
Impact of restrictive civil commitment procedures on a prison psychiatric service
1979 · J C Bonovitz, E B Guy · American Journal of Psychiatry · 131
Democracy and Deliberation
2020 · Cary Federman · University of Michigan Press eBooks · 129
Law, liberty, and psychiatry: An inquiry into the social uses of mental health practices.
1963 · Thomas S. Szasz · MacMillan Co eBooks · 127
Civil commitment: A review of empirical research
1988 · Virginia Aldigé Hiday · Behavioral Sciences & the Law · 122
Reliability of Sexually Violent Predator Civil Commitment Criteria in Florida.
2004 · Jill S. Levenson · Law and Human Behavior · 119
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