Civil commitment

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.

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."

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"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.

External links

• Reforming (purportedly) Non-Punitive Responses to Sexual Offending By Adam Shajnfeld and Richard B. Krueger