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• Cultural Cognition and Public Policy: The Case of Outpatient Commitment Laws 

  Kahan, Dan M; Braman, Donald; Monahan, John; Callahan, Lisa; Peters, Ellen (2010-04)

  What explains controversy over outpatient commitment laws (OCLs), which authorize courts to order persons with mental illness to accept outpatient treatment? We hypothesized that attitudes toward OCLs reflect "cultural ...