Judge Franklin says, This patient is fully able to care for herself. I recognize her need for psychological care but have decided that she should be placed in a halfway house rather than a state mental hospital. The judge's decision illustrates the principle of ____.
a. duty to warn
b. commitment based on dangerousness
c. right to refuse treatment
d. least restrictive form of treatment
Question 2Besides being famous for murdering many people, what else do Jeffrey Dahmer, Seung Hui Cho, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold have in common?
a. Their aberrant thoughts and behaviors appear to have gone unrecognized or were ignored.
b. They were all teenagers when they committed their heinous acts.
c. They were all sexually abused by people they trusted when they were young.
d. All of them had previous criminal records.
Question 3Addington v. Texas was a Supreme Court ruling on civil commitment. It changed the standard of proof so that ____.
a. the judge or jury had to be 51 percent certain of the evidence to decide in favor of commitment
b. the standard was set at a lower level of certainty than in criminal cases
c. commitment could occur only if there was evidence beyond a reasonable doubt
d. the judge or jury had to be 90 percent certain of the evidence to decide in favor of commitment
Question 4An attorney says this to a judge in a civil commitment case: Your honor, the Supreme Court in 1979 ruled that we cannot deny people their liberty by committing them to mental institutions involuntarily unless we have 'clear and convincing evidence' that they are mentally ill and potentially dangerous. To what Supreme Court ruling is the attorney referring?
a. Addington v. Texas
b. Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the University of California
c. Wyatt v. Stickney
d. Jackson v. Indiana
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