Showing papers by "John Monahan published in 1977"
TL;DR: The authors analyzes Dix's proposal and finds that it presents an unacceptable level of risk to the community and proposes four alternative methodologies by which preliminary data can be gathered on the validity of predictions of violence in emergency civil commitment.
Abstract: Dix (1976) recently has proposed that a “true experiment” be conducted to assess the validity of predictions of imminent violence. A random sample of persons predicted to be iminently violent would be denied emergency civil commitment in order to test whether they do, in fact, commit a violent act. This article analyzes Dix's proposal and finds that it presents an unacceptable level of risk to the community. Four alternative methodologies by which preliminary data can be gathered on the validity of predictions of violence in emergency civil commitment are described.
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TL;DR: The author discusses the quote from Mill's On Liberty that is often cited by libertarians in opposition to involuntary commitment of the mentally ill and how this quote has been taken out of context.
Abstract: The author discusses the quote from Mill's On Liberty that is often cited by libertarians in opposition to involuntary commitment of the mentally ill. This quote has been taken out of context; other statements in the document indicate that Mill excluded from his libertarian credo those "without the ordinary amount of understanding," i.e., those people who would now be considered mentally ill.
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TL;DR: In the past decade, the resident population of state mental hospitals has plummeted in the US, and cries that commitment be abolished altogether are heard with no decrease in fervor as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: the resident population of state mental hospitals has plummeted in the past decade, cries that commitment be abolished altogether are heard with no decrease in fervor. Many others feel that the pendulum has swung too far, that patients' rights and community care have been seized upon by fiscally conservative legislatures to cease providing any care at all to mentally disordered persons. The controversies over commitment have been framed as is-
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