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- Title
The Search for Due Process in Civil Commitment Hearings: How Procedural Realities Have Altered Substantive Standards.
- Authors
Ferris, Christyne E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issues concerning the search for due process in civil commitment of mentally ill individuals in the U.S. It provides information on the background of the current state of due process including the emergence of a Constitutional model of Civil Commitment and the approaches to Civil Commitment. Furthermore, the article discusses the solution regarding the problems presented in the Civil Commitment hearing. In conclusion, the author states that the due process guarantees that no one shall be deprived of property, liberty or life without due process of law.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DUE process of law; HUMAN rights; CIVIL rights; COMMITMENT &; detention of people with mental illness; INVOLUNTARY treatment; INSANITY (Law); MENTAL health laws; JUSTICE administration
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 3, p959
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article