Add to ORKGNever make predictions, especially about the future. But in civil commitments, courts predict future behavior all the time. Judicial action here has severe results for the individual: deprivation of liberty, potentially unwanted and intrusive treatment, and the stigma of mental illness. Judicial inaction can also do harm: erroneous release can lead to injury of the person or others. Resolving these risks requires courts to find the person poses a danger to him/herself or others because of a mental illness
Almost every American state allows civil commitment upon a finding that a person, as a result of men...
The study examined judges\u27 reasons for ordering pretrial forensic evaluation instead of civil com...
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers in the field of violence risk assessment recognized that even th...
Never make predictions, especially about the future. But in civil commitments, courts predict future...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
This article examines several Supreme Court decisions and surveys recent literature and caselaw to a...
Almost every American state allows civil commitment upon a finding that a person, as a result of men...
The imposition of substantive and procedural protections in the civil commitment process thirty year...
interpreted to assert that dangerousness is a constitutional requirement for civil commitment. This ...
When mental health experts provide information to courts on the results of a risk assessment conduct...
When mental health experts provide information to courts on the results of a risk assessment conduct...
Monday, January 7, 2013 Associate Professor and Director of Civil Clinics Alexander W. Scherr\u27sar...
The current debate over the “police powers” versus parens patniae rationales for involuntary hospita...
There are many areas of the law in which predictions of the potential for violence play a significan...
Although risk management has been studied in a variety of contexts, risk management has not been tra...
Almost every American state allows civil commitment upon a finding that a person, as a result of men...
The study examined judges\u27 reasons for ordering pretrial forensic evaluation instead of civil com...
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers in the field of violence risk assessment recognized that even th...
Never make predictions, especially about the future. But in civil commitments, courts predict future...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
This article examines several Supreme Court decisions and surveys recent literature and caselaw to a...
Almost every American state allows civil commitment upon a finding that a person, as a result of men...
The imposition of substantive and procedural protections in the civil commitment process thirty year...
interpreted to assert that dangerousness is a constitutional requirement for civil commitment. This ...
When mental health experts provide information to courts on the results of a risk assessment conduct...
When mental health experts provide information to courts on the results of a risk assessment conduct...
Monday, January 7, 2013 Associate Professor and Director of Civil Clinics Alexander W. Scherr\u27sar...
The current debate over the “police powers” versus parens patniae rationales for involuntary hospita...
There are many areas of the law in which predictions of the potential for violence play a significan...
Although risk management has been studied in a variety of contexts, risk management has not been tra...
Almost every American state allows civil commitment upon a finding that a person, as a result of men...
The study examined judges\u27 reasons for ordering pretrial forensic evaluation instead of civil com...
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers in the field of violence risk assessment recognized that even th...