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Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013
Preventive detention schemes that aim to protect the community from certain ‘dangerous’ individuals have long existed. While risk assessment is now pervasive in the management and treatment of many individuals, it raises particular issues when a person's liberty is at stake on the basis of what...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25431531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.893551 |
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description | Preventive detention schemes that aim to protect the community from certain ‘dangerous’ individuals have long existed. While risk assessment is now pervasive in the management and treatment of many individuals, it raises particular issues when a person's liberty is at stake on the basis of what that person might do. This R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture addresses the ethical issues raised by mental health practitioners providing risk assessments for legislative schemes that involve the deprivation of liberty. It will focus in particular on Australian post-sentence preventive detention schemes for sex offenders that have been held by the United Nations Human Rights Committee to breach fundamental human rights. However, the ethical issues discussed also have repercussions for civil commitment laws that enable the detention of those with severe mental or intellectual impairments. |
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spelling | pubmed-42264202014-11-25 Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 McSherry, B. Psychiatr Psychol Law Articles Preventive detention schemes that aim to protect the community from certain ‘dangerous’ individuals have long existed. While risk assessment is now pervasive in the management and treatment of many individuals, it raises particular issues when a person's liberty is at stake on the basis of what that person might do. This R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture addresses the ethical issues raised by mental health practitioners providing risk assessments for legislative schemes that involve the deprivation of liberty. It will focus in particular on Australian post-sentence preventive detention schemes for sex offenders that have been held by the United Nations Human Rights Committee to breach fundamental human rights. However, the ethical issues discussed also have repercussions for civil commitment laws that enable the detention of those with severe mental or intellectual impairments. Routledge 2014-09-03 2014-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4226420/ /pubmed/25431531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.893551 Text en © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Routledge http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
spellingShingle | Articles McSherry, B. Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title | Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title_full | Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title_fullStr | Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title_full_unstemmed | Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title_short | Throwing Away the Key: The Ethics of Risk Assessment for Preventive Detention Schemes: R.G. Myers Memorial Lecture 2013 |
title_sort | throwing away the key: the ethics of risk assessment for preventive detention schemes: r.g. myers memorial lecture 2013 |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25431531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2014.893551 |
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