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Police Emergency Commitment Powers in Cases of Persons Experiencing Mental Health Crisis in “Public Spaces”: Review of the Commitment Process in England and Wales, in Comparison to the Practice in the United States of America (USA)

机译:警方应急承诺权力在“公共场所”中经历心理健康危机的情况下:与美国的实践相比,审查英格兰和威尔士的承诺进程(美国)

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Police emergency commitment powers for detention of persons in the community perceived to be seriously mentally ill for further specialist examination in a designated facility have always raised interest in medical and legal circles on both sides of the Atlantic. The objective of this article is to detail the police commitment procedure in England and Wales, as dictated by the mental health act of 1983 (MHA 1983) amended in 2007 (MHA 2007); and compare this with similar legal provisions as prevails under current state mental health statutes in the United States of America (USA). The comparative review of the commitment processes in England and Wales to that of the USA reveals that the process in England and Wales seeks to primarily ensure that persons with mental disorder (PWMD) in crisis are directed to a specialist hospital for evaluation and appropriate specialist care. In the USA such persons in a good number of cases may end up in the criminal justice system due to application of the “dangerousness” standard. Additionally whereas in England and Wales the commitment law is uniform in law and application, the federal system in the USA is such that the commitment law may have minor variations depending on the individual states. The minor variation in state commitment laws may engender a situation where the commitment law in England and Wales may seem relatively equitable and just towards PWMD in crisis, compared to the state commitment laws in the USA.
机译:警方应急承诺拘留社会人员在指定设施中拘留的社会人员拘留,以便在指定的设施中获得进一步的专业考试,一直在大西洋双方对医疗和法律界的兴趣提高了兴趣。本文的目的是详细介绍英格兰和威尔士的警察承诺程序,由2007年(MHA 2007)修订的1983年(MHA 1983)的心理卫生法案(MHA 1983)所示;并将其与相似的法律规定相比,在美国(美国)的当前国家心理健康法规中的普遍存在。英格兰和威尔士对美国承诺进程的比较审查揭示了英格兰和威尔士的进程旨在确保危机中的精神障碍(PWMD)旨在评估和适当专家护理的专科医院。在美国这样的人在众多案件中可能最终可能在刑事司法系统中最终申请“危险性”标准。此外,在英格兰和威尔士的同时,在法律和申请方面是统一的,美国的联邦制度是指承诺法可能对个人国家进行轻微的变化。国家承诺法的次要变化可能会引发英格兰和威尔士的承诺法似乎相对公平,而且在美国的危机中似乎对危机的承诺法。

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