Community treatment orders are not a good thing.

نویسندگان

  • Simon Lawton-Smith
  • John Dawson
  • Tom Burns
چکیده

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.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

دوره 193 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008