The test of compulsion in mental health law: capacity, therapeutic benefit, and dangerousness as criteria for compulsion

Bartlett, Peter

Abstract

This paper considers three possible justifications for psychiatric compulsion - dangerousness, capacity and therapeutic benefit.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2003
• Deposit Date: Aug 21, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 21, 2012
• Journal: Medical Law Review
• Print ISSN: 0967-0742
• Electronic ISSN: 0967-0742
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/11.3.326
• Keywords: mental health law; compulsion; dangerousness; mental capacity; therapeutic benefit; psychiatric detention; civil committal; compulsory treatment
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1022264
• Publisher URL: http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/326
• Additional Information: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced pdf of an article accepted for publication in Medical Law Review following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Medical Law Review, 11(3) (2003), 326-352, is available online at: http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3/326