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T1 Washington's Sexually Violent Predator Law: A Deliberate Misuse of the Therapeutic State for Social Control
A1 La Fond, John Q.
LA English
YR 1992
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866908804
AB This Article will demonstrate that the Washington legislature deliberately chose to abuse the medical model of involuntary commitment for treatment in order to achieve lifetime preventive detention. In so doing, the legislature violated fundamental constitutional principles that underlie our system of social care and control and safeguard individual liberty