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Involuntary detention and therapeutic jurisprudence : international perspectives on civil commitment / edited by Kate Diesfeld, Ian Freckelton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xlv, 630 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754622665
  • 9780754622666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.0138 22
LOC classification:
  • K640 .I58 2003
Contents:
1. Introduction / Kate Diesfeld and Ian Freckelton -- 2. A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model for Civil Commitment / Bruce J. Winick -- 3. Involuntary Treatment: Searching for Principles / Genevra Richardson -- 4. The Rights of Involuntarily Admitted Psychiatric Patients: European Developments / Johan Legemaate -- 5. Where is the Asylum? / Suzy Stevens -- 6. Decision-Making by Psychiatrists about Involuntary Detention / Ruth Vine -- 7. Choosing Among Options for Compulsory Care / John Dawson -- 8. All Locked Up with Nowhere to Go: Treatment Refusal in the Involuntarily Hospitalised Psychiatric Population in Canada / Mona Gupta -- 9. The Release of Judge Schreber in Saxony 1902: An Historic Example of Modern Decision-Making about Involuntary Detention / Ian Freckelton -- 10. Therapeutic Potential in Review of Involuntary Detention / Stephanie du Fresne -- 11. Mental Health Review Tribunals / Elizabeth Perkins -- 12. Patients' Views of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Procedure in England / Nicola Ferencz -- 13. Discharge of Restricted Patients from Special Hospitals in England and Wales: Law and Practice / Lucy Scott-Moncrieff -- 14. Involuntary Detention Decision-Making, Criteria and Hearing Procedures: An Opportunity for Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Action / Ian Freckelton -- 15. Capacity and Confinement: When is Detention Not Detention? / Peter Bartlett -- 16. Insights on "Insight": The Impact of Extra-Legislative Factors on Decisions to Discharge Detained Patients / Kate Diesfeld -- 17. 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 / Ian Freckelton -- 18. Coerced Community Treatment: International Trends and Outcomes / Virginia Aldige' Hiday -- 19. Mandated Community Treatment: The Potential Role of Violence Risk Assessment / John Monahan -- 20. A Clinical Perspective on Involuntary Outpatient Treatment: Efficacy and Ethics / Alexander I. F. Simpson -- 21. Rights Issues in Compulsory Community Treatment / Sylvia Bell -- 22. Throwing Away the Key: People with Intellectual Disability and Involuntary Detention / Kelley Johnson and Sue Tait -- 23. New Zealand's Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care) Legislation / Warren J. Brookbanks -- 24. Criteria for Discharge of People with Learning Disabilities: A Comparative Analysis / Kate Diesfeld.
Summary: 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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 346.0138 INV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A456490B
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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.

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

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.

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