Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

Author Information

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Kate Diesfeld

Ian Freckelton

PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES

A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model for Civil Commitment

Bruce J Winick

Involuntary Treatment: Searching for Principles

Genevra Richardson

The Rights of Involuntarily Admitted Psychiatric Patients: European Developments

Johan Legemaate

PART THREE: INVOLUNTARY DETENTION OF THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES

Where is the Asylum?

Suzy Stevens

Decision-Making by Psychiatrists about Involuntary Detention

Ruth Vine

Choosing Among Options for Compulsory Care

John Dawson

All Locked Up with Nowhere to Go: Treatment Refusal in the Involuntarily Hospitalised Psychiatric Population in Canada

Mona Gupta

PART FOUR: REVIEW OF INVOLUNTARY DETENTION DECISION-MAKING

The Release of Judge Schreber in Saxony 1902: An Historic Example of Modern Decision-Making about involuntary Detention

Ian Freckelton

Therapeutic Potential in Review of Involuntary Detention

Stephanie du Fresne

Mental Health Review Tribunals

Elizabeth Perkins

Patients' Views of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Procedure in England

Nicola Ferencz

Discharge of Restricted Patients from Special Hospitals in England and Wales: Law and Practice

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff

PART FIVE: LEGAL CRITERIA FOR INVOLUNTARY DETENTION OF THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES

Involuntary Detention Decision-Making, Criteria and Hearing Procedures: An Opportunity for Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Action

Ian Freckelton

Capacity and Confinement: When is Detention Not Detention?

Peter Bartett

Insights on ``Insight'': The Impat of Extra-Legislative Factors on Decisions to Discharge Detained Patients

Kate Diesfeld

Involuntary Detention of Persons Found Not Guilty of Murder by Reason of Mental Impairment of Found Unfit to Stand Trial: A New Jurisprudence from Victoria

Ian Freckelton

PART SIX: INVOLUNTARY OUTPATIENT DETENTION

Coerced Community Treatment: International Trends and Outcomes

Virginia Aldige' Hiday

Mandated Community Treatment: The Potential Role of Violence Risk Assessment

John Monhan

A Clinical Perspectice on Involuntary Outpatient Treatment: Efficacy and Ethics

Alexander I F Simpson

Rights Issues in Compulsory Community Treatment

Sylvia Bell

PART SEVEN: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND INVOLUNTARY DETENTION

Throwing Away the Key: People with Intellectual Disability and Involuntary Detention

Kelley Johnson

Sue Tait

New Zealand's Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care) Legislation

Warren J Brookbanks

Criteria for Discharge of People with Learning Disabilities: A Comparative Analysis

Kate Diesfeld

Bibliography

Index