(DOWNLOAD) "Evaluating the Judicial Interpretation of Civil Commitment Schemes for Serious Sex Offenders." by University of Western Sydney Law Review ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Evaluating the Judicial Interpretation of Civil Commitment Schemes for Serious Sex Offenders.
- Author : University of Western Sydney Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 337 KB
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I. Introduction In general terms, civil commitment describes a process for the control of a person for a therapeutic or public health purpose using civil rather than criminal processes. An obvious and widely used example is the involuntary detention for treatment of a person assessed as mentally ill. (1) A less obvious example is the civil commitment of people who pose a risk to public health. (2) These two forms of civil commitment have been used for more than a hundred years. (3) Western democratic societies have tolerated those limited forms of civil commitment of those suffering illness or disease because of the high standing of the medical profession administering the procedure and the advice that civil commitment in certain situations might be good for the health and safety of both patient and public. Those forms of civil commitment have a clear therapeutic objective.
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