A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention

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Bartlett, Peter (2012) A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention. International Journal of Human Rights, 16 (6). pp. 831-844. ISSN 1364-2987

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Abstract

It has long been the case in jurisprudence under the European Convention on Human Rights that mental disorder must be of a certain severity in order to justify detention,

but there has been little meaningful debate as to what that means. The question is relevant not merely to the European Court of Human Rights, but also to the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, as the potential of inhuman or degrading treatment that arises from the coercive elements in institutions is particularly clear if persons are wrongfully detained in an institution and ought in fact to be somewhere else. Considerable improvement in the substantive clarity of domestic law is therefore required. The specifics of the domestic standards are a matter for individual governments but, within the Council of Europe, they will need to meet the requirements of both the European Convention on Human Rights and the United

Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The article considers the traditional justifications for civil detention in psychiatry – dangerousness, need for treatment and capacity – in the light of these two conventions.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/710823
Additional Information: This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the International Journal of Human Rights © 2012, Taylor & Francis; International Journal of Human Rights is available online at: www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13642987.2012.706008
Keywords: mental health mental disability psychiatric detention European Committee for the Prevention of Torture CPT dangerousness mental capacity United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; CRPD European Convention on Human Rights ECHR
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.706008
Depositing User: Bartlett, Peter
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2012 09:31
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:33
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1676

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