Involuntary Commitment for Mental Disorder: The Application of California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act

1 January 1977

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law & Society Review

Vol. 11 (4) , 629
https://doi.org/10.2307/3053175

Abstract

One hundred persons who were committed involuntarily to mental hospitals on 72-hour holds under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (1967), and who file...

Keywords

HOSPITALS
FILE
HOUR
MENTAL DISORDER
INVOLUNTARY
HOLDS
HUNDRED
INVOLUNTARILY
COMMITMENT FOR MENTAL

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