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• Outpatient Civil Commitment Laws: An Overview 

  Allbright, Amy; Levy, Frederick; Wagle, Nisha C. (2002-03)
• What Would Mary Douglas Do? A Commentary on Kahan Et Al., "Cultural Cognition and Public Policy: The Case of Outpatient Commitment Laws" 

  Swanson, Jeffrey (2010-06)

  Involuntary outpatient commitment is a highly controversial issue in mental health law. Strong supporters of outpatient commitment see it as a form of access to community-based mental health care and a less restrictive ...
• 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 ...