Does politicians' enthusiasm for community treatment orders lie primarily in the area of
public protection? If so, can such orders reduce homicide rates? Is there adequate evidence …

Epidemiological studies using administrative databases have several advantages over other
methodologies in studying the effectiveness of compulsory community treatment such as …

The procedures governing the compulsory detention of people experiencing psychiatric
problems vary a great deal across the industrialised world. In many Western countries …

Empirical evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) is at best
mixed. We examine CTOs through the prism of human rights and discrimination, bearing the …

Introduction 2 just a few months into 2008, a convergence of unfortunate circumstances has
brought the plight of offenders with mental health problems into sharp focus. Figures …

This article deals with the community treatment order debate in England and Wales. It is
important at the outset to explain the connection between clinical criminology and the …

Compulsory community treatment orders are a feature of most advanced mental health
systems without convincing experimental evidence of benefits. Is it ethical to continue …

BackgroundTragic and high-profile killings by people with mental illness have been used to
suggest that the community care model for mental health services has failed. AimsTo …

According to Torrey (1995), de-institutionalisation of the seriously mentally ill in America has
been the largest failed social experiment of the 20th century. Many have failed to survive in …

Community treatment orders (CTOs) are a variant of outpatient commitment (OPC)
legislation that has become increasingly evident across North American and Australian …