Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment and Other Coercive Behavioral Interventions as Criminal Sanctions: Reflections on Vitek v. Jones

Authors

Carl J. Circo, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

This Article inquires into the substantive limits on the power of government to impose coercive behavioral interventions on criminal offenders solely because of a criminal conviction and sentence.

Recommended Citation

Carl J. Circo, Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment and Other Coercive Behavioral Interventions as Criminal Sanctions: Reflections on Vitek v. Jones, 59 Wash. U. L. Q. 081 (1981).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol59/iss1/7