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'''Civil Commitment''' or involuntary commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital (inpatient) or in the community (outpatient).
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'''Civil commitment''' or involuntary commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital (inpatient) or in the community (outpatient).


Criteria for civil commitment are established by laws, which vary between nations. Commitment proceedings often follow a period of emergency hospitalization, during which an individual with acute psychiatric symptoms is confined for a relatively short duration (e.g. 72 hours) in a treatment facility for evaluation and stabilization by mental health professionals—who may then determine whether further civil commitment is appropriate or necessary. If civil commitment proceedings follow, then the evaluation is presented in a formal court hearing where testimony and other evidence may also be submitted. The subject of the hearing is typically entitled to legal counsel and may challenge a commitment order through habeas corpus rules.
"Civil commitment" is the latest legal tool used against so-called "sexual predators" (including BoyLovers) to deny them their [[civil rights]], and confine them for ''life'' in a prison-like environment. As the laws against intergenerational sexual activity are ''politically motivated'', BoyLovers are the newest "{{w|political prisoners}}" being sent the new American {{w|Gulag}} for their personal beliefs and sexual orientation.


Historically, until the first third of the twentieth century or later in most jurisdictions, all committals to public psychiatric facilities and most committals to private ones were involuntary. Since then, there have been alternating trends towards the abolition or substantial reduction of involuntary commitment, a trend known as "deinstitutionalisation."
By 1960, in response to high-profile sex crime cases, 26 states had statutes allowing for the indefinite civil commitment of "sexual psychopaths," instead of prison time. But they had almost all been repealed or fallen out of use by the time the first modern civil commitment statute was passed in 1990. Civil commitment is now law in 20 states, plus [[Washington, D.C.]] and the federal government.<ref>http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/4/5/florida-becomes-theharsheststateforsexoffenders.html</ref>
*NOTE: Continue reading the Wikipedia article {{w|Civil_commitment|here.}} (Scroll down to the "Politically motivated abuses" section.)


"Civil commitment" is the latest legal tool used against so-called "sexual predators" (including BoyLovers) to deny them their civil rights, and confine them for ''life'' in a prison-like environment. As the laws against intergenerational sexual activity are ''politically motivated'', BoyLovers are the newest "{{w|political prisoners}}" being sent the new American {{w|Gulag}} for their personal beliefs and sexual orientation.
The [[U.S. Supreme Court]], in ''[[Kansas v. Hendricks]]'' ({{ussc|521|346|1997}}, upheld [[Kansas]]'s Sexually Violent Predator Act, which provided that any person who, due to "mental abnormality" or "personality disorder", is likely to engage in "predatory acts of sexual violence" can be indefinitely confined.


==References==
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==See also==
*[[ Reform Sex Offender Laws, Inc]]
*[[California Reform Sex Offender Laws Organization]]
*[[Sex offender registry]]
*[[The Center for Sexual Justice]]
*[[SOR problems‎]]
*[[Criminalisation of youth]]
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070228153619/http://www.freewebs.com/adamshajnfeld/article.htm Reforming (purportedly) Non-Punitive Responses to Sexual Offending By Adam Shajnfeld and Richard B. Krueger]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070228153619/http://www.freewebs.com/adamshajnfeld/article.htm Reforming (purportedly) Non-Punitive Responses to Sexual Offending By Adam Shajnfeld and Richard B. Krueger]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYt-3fai-PI Are We All Sex Offenders? | Galen Baughman | TEDxCUNY (YouTube Video)]


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Latest revision as of 17:32, 15 February 2016

Civil commitment or involuntary commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital (inpatient) or in the community (outpatient).

"Civil commitment" is the latest legal tool used against so-called "sexual predators" (including BoyLovers) to deny them their civil rights, and confine them for life in a prison-like environment. As the laws against intergenerational sexual activity are politically motivated, BoyLovers are the newest "political prisoners" being sent the new American Gulag for their personal beliefs and sexual orientation.

By 1960, in response to high-profile sex crime cases, 26 states had statutes allowing for the indefinite civil commitment of "sexual psychopaths," instead of prison time. But they had almost all been repealed or fallen out of use by the time the first modern civil commitment statute was passed in 1990. Civil commitment is now law in 20 states, plus Washington, D.C. and the federal government.[1]

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Kansas v. Hendricks (521 U.S. 346 (1997), upheld Kansas's Sexually Violent Predator Act, which provided that any person who, due to "mental abnormality" or "personality disorder", is likely to engage in "predatory acts of sexual violence" can be indefinitely confined.

References

  1. ↑ http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/4/5/florida-becomes-theharsheststateforsexoffenders.html

See also

External links



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