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19414892

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-5
pubmed:abstractText
In this paper we explore racial disparities in outpatient civil commitment, using data from Kendra's Law in New York State. Overall, African Americans are more likely than whites to be involuntarily committed for outpatient psychiatric care in New York. However, candidates for outpatient commitment are largely drawn from a population in which blacks are overrepresented: psychiatric patients with multiple involuntary hospitalizations in public facilities. Whether this overrepresentation under court-ordered outpatient treatment is unfair depends on one's view: is it access to treatment and a less restrictive alternative to hospitalization, or a coercive deprivation of personal liberty?
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1544-5208
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
816-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Racial disparities in involuntary outpatient commitment: are they real?
pubmed:affiliation
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, USA. jeffrey.swanson@duke.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't