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Empirical Analyses of Civil Commitment: Critique and Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

John Monahan
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Civil commitment recently has come to replace the insanity defense as the most controversial issue in mental health law. While the resident population of state mental hospitals has plummeted in the past decade, cries that commitment be abolished altogether are heard with no decrease in fervor. Many others feel that the pendulum has swung too far, that patients' rights and community care have been seized upon by fiscally conservative legislatures to cease providing any care at all to mentally disordered persons.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , Spring 1977 , pp. 619 - 628
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Copyright © 1977 The Law and Society Association

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