Add to ORKGThis article begins and ends with a call for more empirical research to understand the connection between societal views of mental illness and the legal system. The author asserts that changing social perceptions of mental illness certainly affect legal outcomes and commitment levels, but the degree remains unknown. This article explores the above two topics through the framework of the Circuit Court \u27split\u27 regarding the Constitutional rights of persons committed to state mental health institutions. A main facet of the \u27split\u27 is centered on the Circuits\u27 disagreement about whether or not all mentally ill patients committed to institutions deserve the same Constitutional protections
Mental health court programs have proliferated in the United States in the past few decades in respo...
This Article examines specialty courts, including drug, alcohol, and mental health courts, which pro...
The article reviews the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence, integrating mental health principles i...
This article begins and ends with a call for more empirical research to understand the connection be...
This article begins and ends with a call for more empirical research to understand the connection be...
This Article explores the establishment of mental health courts as a partial solution to the perplex...
Despite the proliferation of mental health courts across the United States, virtually no attention h...
The emergence of mental health courts in the 1990s is due to the high prevalence of mentally ill per...
This article examines congressional testimony preceding the passage of legislation authorizing feder...
Persons with mental illness are incarcerated in prisons across the United States at disproportionate...
In this Article, I provide additional support for my recent proposal* to extend federal mental healt...
Issues raised by the influx of defendants with serious mental illnesses are some of the most importa...
This article is based on a lecture delivered by Professor Ashton at the North East Mental Health Law...
Today, people with mental illnesses in the United States are ten times more likely to be incarcerate...
To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which curr...
Mental health court programs have proliferated in the United States in the past few decades in respo...
This Article examines specialty courts, including drug, alcohol, and mental health courts, which pro...
The article reviews the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence, integrating mental health principles i...
This article begins and ends with a call for more empirical research to understand the connection be...
This article begins and ends with a call for more empirical research to understand the connection be...
This Article explores the establishment of mental health courts as a partial solution to the perplex...
Despite the proliferation of mental health courts across the United States, virtually no attention h...
The emergence of mental health courts in the 1990s is due to the high prevalence of mentally ill per...
This article examines congressional testimony preceding the passage of legislation authorizing feder...
Persons with mental illness are incarcerated in prisons across the United States at disproportionate...
In this Article, I provide additional support for my recent proposal* to extend federal mental healt...
Issues raised by the influx of defendants with serious mental illnesses are some of the most importa...
This article is based on a lecture delivered by Professor Ashton at the North East Mental Health Law...
Today, people with mental illnesses in the United States are ten times more likely to be incarcerate...
To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which curr...
Mental health court programs have proliferated in the United States in the past few decades in respo...
This Article examines specialty courts, including drug, alcohol, and mental health courts, which pro...
The article reviews the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence, integrating mental health principles i...