Derangement in the study of derangement: a review of the literature on the new psychiatric commitment laws. Academic Article

abstract

• The literature on the new psychiatric commitment laws is reviewed with regard to the issues of context, the dangerousness standard, due process and the effects of reform. It is concluded that the study of psychiatric commitment today suffers from intellectual anomie. Specific recommendations to restore intellectual order in the literature are made.

authors

• Mestrovic, Stjepan

published proceedings

• Med Law

author list (cited authors)

• Mestrovi, S. G.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Mestrović, SG

publication date

• December 1986

published in

• Medicine and Law: an international journal  Journal

keywords

• Commitment Of Mentally Ill
• Humans

start page

• 405

end page

• 415

volume

• 5

issue

• 5