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The Political Diagnosis: Psychiatry in the Service of the Law  


Author:  James L. Knoll, M.D. .


Source: Volume 11, Number 05, January/February 2010 , pp.67-68(2)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Given the similarities between the UK’s DSPD commitment programs, and the U.S.’s Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) commitment laws can one assume the US will also follow the trend of rehabilitation giving way to retribution, which is now giving way to preventive detention?

Keywords: Kansas v. Hendricks , 521 U.S., 346, 117 S. Ct. 2072, 138 L. Ed. 2d 501

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