Citation

Elbogen EB, Tomkins AJ. Behav. Sci. Law 2000; 18(4): 427-444.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/1099-0798(2000)18:4<427::AID-BSL387>3.0.CO;2-X

PMID

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Abstract

Psychiatric hospital recidivism has been and continues to be a persistent problem in treating individuals with chronic mental illness. Conditional release, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, has been suggested as one possible solution. Guided by therapeutic jurisprudence, this article presents a proposal about conditional release that would maximize convergence of social values and would be empirically testable. Specifically, a scientifically validated treatment intervention for individuals with chronic mental illness, contingency management, is integrated with conditional release. From this proposal, a number of empirical hypotheses and legal questions about discharging psychiatric patients are generated and discussed. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: en