Author:
Newton-Howes Giles,Ryan Christopher James
Abstract
SummaryEmpirical 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 evidence in mind, and argue that a necessary condition for their use is that a person lacks decision-making capacity.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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