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Community treatment orders in New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Dawson
John Dawson*
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Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, email john.dawson@otago.ac.nz
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Many legal mechanisms can be used to authorise compulsory community mental healthcare: leave or conditional discharge for compulsory in-patients; adult guardianship (or incapacity) legislation; treatment as a condition of a community-based criminal sentence, like probation, or of parole from imprisonment; or a full-fledged community treatment order (CTO) scheme. It is the specific mix of mechanisms employed in a particular jurisdiction that will characterise how that legal system manages the delivery of compulsory (or quasi-consensual) community psychiatric care.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 59 - 60
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