What is the role of procedural justice in civil commitment?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 671-676

  McKenna, Brian G ^b   Simpson, Alexander I F ^a   Coverdale, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Civil commitment; Coercion; Involuntary treatment; Procedural justice; Ulysses contracts

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; JUSTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; REVIEW;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CIVIL RIGHTS; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DATABASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0033943286     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2000.00744.x     Document Type: Review

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