Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives on Civil Commitment

677 Pages·2003·10.536 MB·English

by  Kate Diesfeld, Ian Freckelton (editor)

INVOLUNTARY DETENTION AND THERAPEUTIC
JURISPRUDENCE
To my family, both given and created
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In memory of Jim Tempany and David Barlow
To Leo and Julia
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Involuntary Detention and
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
International Perspectives on Civil Commitment
Edited by
KATE DIESFELD
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
IANFRECKELTON
Barrister, Monash University, Australia
First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Involuntary detention and therapeutic jurisprudence :
international perspectives on civil commitment
1.Insane - Commitment and detention 2.People with mental
disabilities - Institutional care - Law and legislation
3.Mental health laws 4.Mentally ill offenders -
Rehabilitation
I.Diesfeld, Kate ILFreckelton, Ian R.
344'.044
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Involuntary detention and therapeutic jurisprudence : international perspectives on civil
commitment / edited by Kate Diesfeld and Ian Freckelton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-2266-5 (alk. paper)
1. Insane-Commitment and detention. 2. Insanity-Jurisprudence. I. Diesfeld, Kate,
1960- II. Freckelton, Ian R.
K640.I58 2003
345'.04-dc21
2003048164
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-2266-6 (hbk)
Contents
Table of Cases ix
Table of Legislation xvii
A uthor Information xxi
Preface xxxiii
Acknowledgments xliii
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction
Kate Diesfeld and Ian Freckelton 3
PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES
2 A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model for Civil
Commitment
Bruce J Winick 23
3 Involuntary Treatment: Searching for Principles
Genevra Richardson 55
4 The Rights of Involuntarily Admitted Psychiatric
Patients: European Developments
Johan Legemaate 75
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PART THREE: INVOLUNTARY DETENTION OF
THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES
5 Where is the Asylum?
Suzy Stevens 95
6 Decision-Making by Psychiatrists about Involuntary
Detention
Ruth Vine 113
7 Choosing Among Options for Compulsory Care
John Dawson 133
8 All Locked Up with Nowhere to Go: Treatment
Refusal in the Involuntarily Hospitalised
Psychiatric Population in Canada
Mona Gupta 155
PART FOUR: REVIEW OF INVOLUNTARY
DETENTION DECISION-MAKING
9 The Release of Judge Schreber in Saxony 1902: An
Historic Example of Modern Decision-Making
about Involuntary Detention
Ian Freckelton 181
10 Therapeutic Potential in Review of Involuntary
Detention
Stephanie du Fresne 203
11 Mental Health Review Tribunals
Elizabeth Perkins 221
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12 Patients' Views of the Mental Health Review
Tribunal Procedure in England
Nicola Ferencz 241
13 Discharge of Restricted Patients from Special
Hospitals in England and Wales: Law
and Practice
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff 263
PART FIVE: LEGAL CRITERIA FOR INVOLUNTARY
DETENTION OF THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES
14 Involuntary Detention Decision-Making, Criteria and
Hearing Procedures: An Opportunity for Therapeutic
Jurisprudence in Action
Ian Freckelton 293
15 Capacity and Confinement: When is Detention Not
Detention?
Peter Bartlett 339
16 Insights on "Insight": The Impact of Extra-Legislative
Factors on Decisions to Discharge Detained Patients
Kate Diesfeld 359
17 Involuntary Detention of Persons Found Not Guilty of
Murder by Reason of Mental Impairment or Found Unfit
to Stand Trial: A New Jurisprudence from Victoria
Ian Freckelton 383
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PART SIX: INVOLUNTARY OUTPATIENT
DETENTION
18 Coerced Community Treatment: International Trends
and Outcomes
Virginia Aldige ' Hiday 435
19 Mandated Community Treatment: The Potential Role
of Violence Risk Assessment
John Monahan 455
20 A Clinical Perspective on Involuntary Outpatient
Treatment: Efficacy and Ethics
A lexander IF Simpson 469
21 Rights Issues in Compulsory Community Treatment
Sylvia Bell 485
PART SEVEN: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND
INVOLUNTARY DETENTION
22 Throwing Away the Key: People with Intellectual
Disability and Involuntary Detention
Kelley Johnson and Sue Tait 505
23 New Zealand's Intellectual Disability (Compulsory
Care) Legislation
Warren J Brookbanks 529
24 Criteria for Discharge of People with Learning
Disabilities: A Comparative Analysis
Kate Diesfeld 553
Bibliography 579
Index 623
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Table of Cases
Addington v Texas, 441 US 418 (1979): 33, 456
A-G v David [1992] 2 VR 46: 392
Arthur v Police (1993) unreported, High Court of New Zealand,
Christchurch, AP 369/93, 13/12/93: 147
Ashingdane v The United Kingdom (1985) 6 EHRR 69; (1985) 7 EHRR
528: 78
Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 2 All ER 118;
[1957] 1 WLR 582: 354, 562
Brewster v Dukakis, 12/3/87, 76-4423-F (Mass): 490
Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336: 333, 392
Capital Coast Health Ltd v AGR [1995] (District Court, Wellington MA
296/95, 12 July 1995); (1995) 13 FRNZ 294; [1995] NZFLR 383: 367,
492
Clark v Cohen, 794 F 2d (1986): 559
Department of Health v D [1999] NZFLR 514: 368
Dixon v Weinberger, 405 F Supp 974 (DDC 1975): 490
EO v Mental Health Review Board [2000] WASC 203: 316
F v West Berkshire Health Authority [1989] 2 All ER 545: 341, 344
Fleming v Reid (1991) 4 OR (3d) 74, 82 DLR (4th) 298, 48 OAC 46: 163
Foucha v Louisiana, 504 US 71 (1992): 23, 31, 310, 311
Fox, Campbell and Hartley v The United Kingdom (1990) 12 EHRR: 79
Harry v Mental Health Review Tribunal (1994) 33 NSWLR 315: 332
Herczegfalvy v Austria (1992) 14 EHRR: 79
Humphrey v Cady, 405 US 540 (1972): 310
In the Matter of an Inquest into the Death of LJ, Auckland Coroners Court,
2000:500
In the Matter of IMT [1994] NZFLR 612 (DC): 140
Jackson v Indiana, 406 US 715 (1972): 31, 39, 310
Johnson v Solomon, 485 F Supp 278 (D Md, 1979): 559
Jones v Dunkel ( 1959) 101 CLR 298: 416
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