The application of civil commitment law and practices to a case of delusional disorder: A cross-national comparison of legal approaches in the United States and the United Kingdom

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 385-406

  Fennell, Philip ^b   Goldstein, Robert Lloyd ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMUTILATION; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRELAND; LAW; LEGAL PROCEDURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745990805     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.717     Document Type: Review

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