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Sexual predator commitment laws: lessons for law and the behavioral sciences

โœ Scribed by Eric S. Janus

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
182 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0735-3936

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โœฆ Synopsis

Sex oender commitment laws use a mental health commitment model to lock up the most dangerous'' sex oenders after their prison sentences expire. In Kansas v. Hendricks, the United States Supreme Court rejected the major constitutional challenges to these laws. The Hendricks case clariยฎes important ambiguities about the use of civil commitment to enforce police power'' interests, as opposed to parens patriae'' interests. Hendricks also clariยฎes the role of treatment'' in justifying civil commitment. While there remain some important legal issues to be resolved, the future direction of sex oender commitment schemes will turn most signiยฎcantly on policy decisions. The behavioral sciences can play an important role in shaping these decisions. The most signiยฎcant questions concern whether expensive commitment programs are the most eective use of scarce treatment and supervision dollars. Additional research should be directed to improving dynamic predictors of recidivism, operationalizing inability to control'' standards, judging the social meaning'' of commitment laws, and assessing the potential treatment disincentives of these laws.

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