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: Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

Rape, Psychiatry, and Constitutional Rights?Hard Cases Make For Very Bad Law

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6-21-2010 National:The most disturbing turbulence at the boundary between psychiatry and the law is the misuse of a makeshift psychiatric diagnosis (?Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified, nonconsent?) to justify the involuntary, indefinite psychiatric commitment of rapists. This is a disguised form of preventive detention (often for life), a violation of due process, and an abuse of psychiatry.

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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