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Winick, Bruce J.

Civil commitment a therapeutic jurisprudence model by Bruce J. Winick. - Durham, N.C. Carolina Academic Press c2005. - xvii, 344 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A therapeutic jurisprudence model for civil commitment -- Striking the balance between coercion and autonomy : therapeutic jurisprudence insights on coercion and its consequences and application in the civil commitment process -- Civil commitment criteria : an overview -- General considerations -- The limits of parens patriae commitment : how incompetency should be defined and applied -- The outer limits of police power commitment : the civil commitment of sex offenders -- Application of civil commitment criteria : the civil commitment hearing -- Voluntary hospitalization -- Rights within the institution and the standards governing their exercise or waiver -- Outpatient commitment -- -- International human rights law limitations on civil commitment.

ISBN: 159460021X (alk. paper) 9781594600210 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004021170

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States.

LC Class. No.: KF 480 / .W56 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 346.7301/38