Mental Illness Assumptions in Civil Commitment Proceedings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22472359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James A Holstein (0000-0002-0072-3095, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-175 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241687162002 |
| OpenAlex | W2117699265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 25 |
Under reformed commitment legislation, mental illness alone is insufficient grounds for mental hospitalization. Nonetheless, judges of involuntary commitment hearings operate under the working assumption that persons sought to be committed are mentally ill, and this assumption shapes all other aspects of their evaluations. This article treats the mental illness assumption as an experiental reality and explores the ways in which the assumption influences judges' assessments of candidate patients' courtroom demeanor, testimony, and behavior. It examines the assumption's effect on judges' evaluations of the tenability of these persons' proposed community living arrangements and suggests that contemporary commitment practices tend to enforce a sort of “community custody” upon those persons who avoid commitment.
Involuntary commitment · Legislation · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Political science · Psychiatry · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Labeling and Stigma
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse
Gender and Mental Health
Court Ordered Incompetence
The Validity of Social Control Critiques
Individualism and its Discontents
The Private Image
Housing People with Mental Illnesses
Case Processing and Interorganizational Knowledge
Producing Gender Effects on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
Rethinking Victimization
"Studying "Family Usage
The protection of children
The Problem of Social Reality
On Being Sane in Insane Places
Studies in Ethnomethodology
Studies in ethnomethodology
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Mundane Reasoning
Holistic Effects in Social Control Decision-Making
The Labelling Theory of Mental Illness
Judicial Decisions in Civil Commitment
Involuntary Commitment for Mental Disorder
New Forms of Social Control
A New Trade in Lunacy
Asylums
The Effect of Legal Counsel on Admissions to a State Mental Hospital
Decision-Making in a Psychiatric Screening Agency
Models, Muddles, and Mental Illness Labeling
Police Discretion in Emergency Apprehension of Mentally Ill Persons
The Societal Reaction to Deviance
Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior
Family Rhetoric as Social Order
The Placement of Insanity
On Last Resorts
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2013 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |