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Commentary: civil commitment statutes--40 years of circumvention
William H Fisher1, Thomas Grisso
1University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. bill.fisher@umassmed.edu
Abstract:
There is a longstanding body of literature that describes how states' civil commitment statutes have been stretched or circumvented to accommodate institutional and systemic needs. The paper by Levitt and colleagues provides yet another example of this phenomenon: Arizona's use of its civil commitment statutes to detain unrestorable, incompetent criminal defendants for whom other provisions have not been developed. This commentary provides a brief overview of other examples of the stretching of commitment laws, providing a broader context for viewing the findings of Levitt and colleagues.
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