Stone-Roth Model of Civil Commitment and the California Dangerousness Standard
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 39 (11) , 1267-1271
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290110029005
Abstract
• Professional opposition to making "dangerousness" the primary criterion for involuntary civil commitment has galvanized in support of the proposed "new medical model." The Stone-Roth criteria for commitment were applied to patients being committed under California's version of the dangerousness standard. Results showed that 86% of the patients committed under the California statute were viewed by the examining psychiatrists as committable under the Stone-Roth procedures as well.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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