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Abstract: 

The complete issue version includes links from table of contents entries to articles, and link article continuations, to facilitate reading. In addition to all the single articles listed separately, the complete issue includes short treatments of appellate rulings upholding forcible medication for trial competency; a stalking case, People v. Itehua, 173 Cal.Rptr.3d 614 (Cal. App. 2014), which raised the issue of whether implied threats may serve as a basis for commitment as a mentally disordered offender; conditions at facilities operated by private juvenile corrections contractor Youth Services International in Florida; a review of the second edition of “The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System” by Risdon W. Slate and co-authors, published principally as a textbook but useful, too, CMHR concludes, as a professional reference; and an analysis of U. S. v. Volungus, 730 F.3d 40, in which the lifetime civil commitment as a sexual predator of a defendant convicted of viewing child pornography was upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Keywords: U.S. v. Mikulich, 732 F.3d 692 (6th Cir. 2013); solitary confinement; juvenile corrections; civil commitment

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.