Add to ORKGThe Supreme Court\u27s decision in Kansas v. Hendricks suggests that few constitutional limitations will be imposed. This article discusses the four elements imposed by the Court in Hendricks, and then discusses the likely implications of the decision, using civil commitment laws currently on the books and actual post-Hendricks decisions. The article concludes that the imbalance between commitments and discharges will cause commitment populations to grow over the foreseeable future. Eventually the huge costs of commitment schemes will force serious assessment of whether the facial logic of these programs hides seriously distorted resource allocation and anti-therapeutic side-effects
Sex offender commitment statutes are a controversial and recurring response to the threat of sexual ...
The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations...
In Illinois, a person deemed a Sexually Violent Person (“SVP”) in a civil trial can be detained inde...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Kansas v. Hendricks suggests that few constitutional limitations ...
Sex offender commitment laws present courts with a difficult choice: either allow creative efforts t...
In 1997, the Supreme Court held that the sexually violent predator (SVP) act in Kansas did not viola...
Currently over five thousand individuals are indefinitely confined in the United States with little ...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kansas v...
This report begins with an outline of the history of civil commitment laws, followed by a review of ...
Over the past fifty years the Supreme Court has been repeatedly asked to address the constitutionali...
Today, an estimated 5400 people are civilly committed under state and federal sex offender programs....
This article examines New York\u27s newly enacted sex offender civil commitment law entitled Sex Off...
This Article examines the constitutional concerns raised by, and compares the costs and benefits ass...
The Kansas v. Hendricks (1997) decision, in which the Supreme Court authorized post-sentence civil c...
Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have enacted Sexually Violent Pr...
Sex offender commitment statutes are a controversial and recurring response to the threat of sexual ...
The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations...
In Illinois, a person deemed a Sexually Violent Person (“SVP”) in a civil trial can be detained inde...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Kansas v. Hendricks suggests that few constitutional limitations ...
Sex offender commitment laws present courts with a difficult choice: either allow creative efforts t...
In 1997, the Supreme Court held that the sexually violent predator (SVP) act in Kansas did not viola...
Currently over five thousand individuals are indefinitely confined in the United States with little ...
Full-text available at SSRN. See link in this record.The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kansas v...
This report begins with an outline of the history of civil commitment laws, followed by a review of ...
Over the past fifty years the Supreme Court has been repeatedly asked to address the constitutionali...
Today, an estimated 5400 people are civilly committed under state and federal sex offender programs....
This article examines New York\u27s newly enacted sex offender civil commitment law entitled Sex Off...
This Article examines the constitutional concerns raised by, and compares the costs and benefits ass...
The Kansas v. Hendricks (1997) decision, in which the Supreme Court authorized post-sentence civil c...
Twenty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government have enacted Sexually Violent Pr...
Sex offender commitment statutes are a controversial and recurring response to the threat of sexual ...
The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations...
In Illinois, a person deemed a Sexually Violent Person (“SVP”) in a civil trial can be detained inde...