Description
This dissertation project is a legal and policy analysis of California's involuntary psychiatric commitment laws and policy as applied to American Indians (AI). Mental health-based civil commitment and conservatorships constitute some of the most severe intrusions into personal liberties and freedom outside of the criminal justice system.
Copyright Statement
Download count: 0
Details
Contributors
- Gough, Heather Robyn (Author)
- Brayboy, Bryan Mck. J. (Thesis advisor)
- Romero, Mary (Committee member)
- Molidor, Christian (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2013
Subjects
- Law
- Social Work
- American Indians
- Colonization
- Indigenous
- Law and colonization
- Mental Health
- Social Work
- Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.--California.
- Indians of North America
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--California.
- Mentally ill
- Mental health laws--California.
- Mental health laws
Resource Type
Collections this item is in
Note
- Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2013Note typethesis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-189)Note typebibliography
- Field of study: Justice studies
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Heather Robyn Gough