Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Mitchell Hamline Open Access Faculty Scholarship
1997
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation Eric S. Janus Mitchell Hamline School of Law,
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Publication Information 76 Nebraska Law Review 1 (1997) Repository Citation Janus, Eric S., "Toward a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation" (1997). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 183. http://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/183
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Toward a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation Abstract
Recent litigation and scholarship have begun to focus on the substantive limits of the state's power to use civil commitment as a social control tool. Courts and commentators describe civil commitment as grounded on two powers of the state: the parens patriae interest and the police power. This Article seeks an analytical framework for defining the boundaries of police power commitments in which justification rests on the interests of the public rather than on the interests of the committed individual. Keywords
sex offenders, civil commitment, constitutional law, rights Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
This article is available at Mitchell Hamline Open Access: http://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/183
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