Sexual predator commitment laws: Lessons for law and the behavioral sciences

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-21

  Janus, Eric S ^a  

^a William Mitchell College of Law   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COST; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LAW; OFFENDER; POLICE; PRISON; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 0034114638     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(200001/02)18:1<5::AID-BSL374>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418, 426 (1978).
2. Id.
3. See generally Michael Tonry, Prediction and Classification: Legal and Ethical Issues, 9 CRIME & JUST. 367, 373-385 (1987) (describing H.L.A. Hart's "middle way" as allowing a utilitarian calculus to measure the severity of punishment, while insisting on a retributivist desert-based theory in the determination of "liability" for punishment).