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Compulsory psychiatric treatment sounds insane, to me. Compulsory drug treatment amounts to assault, and "compulsory psychotherapy" isn't a thing - the patient
by denton-scratch 4y ago
Compulsory psychiatric treatment sounds insane, to me. Compulsory drug treatment amounts to assault, and "compulsory psychotherapy" isn't a thing - the patient has to want to engage with the treatment, or they're not really being treated.
- bombcar 4y agoWithout those, the only remaining compulsory treatment is prison, or banishment. And we're out of frontiers to banish people to.
- denton-scratch 4y agoYou seem to have overlooked: - Community service - Fines - Curfews - Binding-over - Suspended sentences Those are the alternatives that leap to mind; i'm sure there are many more choices for sentencing magistrates.
- bombcar 4y agoWe're assuming a homeless person who is uncooperative; why would they suddenly start cooperating over fines, et al?
- denton-scratch 4y agoThey could be a law-abiding homeless person. You know: someone like you, maybe, that lost their home to their wife in a nasty divorce. Or maybe they comply with the court's orders, because they don't want more severe sanctions? Fact is, some states seem to manage without throwing people in the can as soon as possible; some states use incarceration as a last resort. [Sorry, upthread person; I wasn't trained on US constitution. As far as I'm concerned, jail, prison, penitentiary, reform school are all the same as incarceration. At least for the purposes of this discussion.]
- bombcar 4y agoThose people I would assume aren't the ones refusing help and pissing in the corner of their provided house.