Involuntary detention and therapeutic jurisprudence : international perspectives on civil commitment /

Involuntary detention and therapeutic jurisprudence : international perspectives on civil commitment / edited by Kate Diesfeld, Ian Freckelton. - xlv, 630 pages ; 23 cm

Editor, Kate Diesfeld and contributors Sylvia Bell, Warren J. Brookbanks, John Dawson, Alexander I.F. Simpson, Suzy Stevens and Stephanie du Fresne are authors resident in New Zealand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model for Civil Commitment / Involuntary Treatment: Searching for Principles / The Rights of Involuntarily Admitted Psychiatric Patients: European Developments / Where is the Asylum? / Decision-Making by Psychiatrists about Involuntary Detention / Choosing Among Options for Compulsory Care / All Locked Up with Nowhere to Go: Treatment Refusal in the Involuntarily Hospitalised Psychiatric Population in Canada / The Release of Judge Schreber in Saxony 1902: An Historic Example of Modern Decision-Making about Involuntary Detention / Therapeutic Potential in Review of Involuntary Detention / Mental Health Review Tribunals / Patients' Views of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Procedure in England / Discharge of Restricted Patients from Special Hospitals in England and Wales: Law and Practice / Involuntary Detention Decision-Making, Criteria and Hearing Procedures: An Opportunity for Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Action / Capacity and Confinement: When is Detention Not Detention? / Insights on "Insight": The Impact of Extra-Legislative Factors on Decisions to Discharge Detained Patients / Involuntary Detention of Persons Found Not Guilty of Murder by Reason of Mental Impairment or Found Unfit to Stand Trial: A New Jurisprudence from Victoria / Coerced Community Treatment: International Trends and Outcomes / Mandated Community Treatment: The Potential Role of Violence Risk Assessment / A Clinical Perspective on Involuntary Outpatient Treatment: Efficacy and Ethics / Rights Issues in Compulsory Community Treatment / Throwing Away the Key: People with Intellectual Disability and Involuntary Detention / New Zealand's Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care) Legislation / Criteria for Discharge of People with Learning Disabilities: A Comparative Analysis / Kate Diesfeld and Ian Freckelton -- Bruce J. Winick -- Genevra Richardson -- Johan Legemaate -- Suzy Stevens -- Ruth Vine -- John Dawson -- Mona Gupta -- Ian Freckelton -- Stephanie du Fresne -- Elizabeth Perkins -- Nicola Ferencz -- Lucy Scott-Moncrieff -- Ian Freckelton -- Peter Bartlett -- Kate Diesfeld -- Ian Freckelton -- Virginia Aldige' Hiday -- John Monahan -- Alexander I. F. Simpson -- Sylvia Bell -- Kelley Johnson and Sue Tait -- Warren J. Brookbanks -- Kate Diesfeld. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

The care of the insane has taken on a new meaning with the new school of therapeutic jurisprudence replacing outmoded ideas of how society should perceive mental disability law. This comparative perspective on the issue features the writings of a host of scholars and legal experts.

0754622665 9780754622666

2003048164


Mentally ill--Commitment and detention
Insanity (Law)
Commitment of Mentally Ill--legislation & jurisprudence
Internationality--legislation & jurisprudence

K640 / .I58 2003

346.0138

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