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• Beyond the Black Letter of the Law: An Empirical Study of an Individual Judge's Decision Process for Civil Commitment Hearings 

  Bursztajn, Harold J.; Hamm, Robert M.; Gutheil, Thomas G. (1997)

  To study the role of parens patriae and "police powers" considerations in an individual judge's civil commitment decisions, the judge's reports of the impact of various characteristics of the patient were analyzed. The ...