Community treatment orders are not a good thing
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Community treatment orders are not a good thing.
Does politicians' enthusiasm for community treatment orders lie primarily in the area of public protection? If so, can such orders reduce homicide rates? Is there adequate evidence of their value, given their adverse effects on individual liberty? This well-researched and provocative debate will enlighten readers on these and many more of the complicated questions surrounding this issue.
متن کاملWhy are community treatment orders controversial?
The use of community treatment orders and other forms of mandatory outpatient treatment has been controversial. The debate on the appropriateness of compulsory treatment in the community addresses a volatile mix of clinical, social policy, legal, and philosophical issues. This paper describes the major sources of contention, outlines the position of the protagonists, and where possible, attempt...
متن کاملWhen change is not a good thing.
Over the past 40 years, our understanding of the epidemiology and natural history of a number of common chronic diseases has been markedly enhanced by serial, nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (1 ), longitudinal cohorts such as the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study (2 ), and more disease-specif...
متن کاملIs Increasing Community Participation Always a Good Thing?
This paper considers the impact of community participation on outcomes of development projects. It rst offers a theoretical framework for participation by using the property rights literature to model how participation in an activity, in addition to involving information exchange, also results in greater in uence in the activity. The model predicts that community participationmay not always ...
متن کاملCommunity treatment orders.
2 They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game Preface Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) were introduced to Western Australia as part of the Mental Health Act 1996 (the 'Act') which came into force on 13 November 1997. In line with the use of C...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.049072