About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

58 Howard L.J. 715 (2014-2015)
Reforming Mental Health Law to Protect Public Saftey and Help the Severely Mentally Ill

handle is hein.journals/howlj58 and id is 747 raw text is: Reforming Mental Health Law to Protect Public Safety and Help the Severely Mentally Ill DAVID B. KOPEL* AND CLAYTON E. CRAMER** INTRODUCTION ................................. 716 I. DEFINING THE TERMS..... ............... 719 II. DATA AND STUDIES ON CRIME AND THE SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL .................. 725 A. The seriously mental ill as crime victims .......... 726 B. Studies of serious mental illness and crime ......... 727 C. Incarceration Data................. ........ 734 III. MASS MURDERS AND PSYCHOSIS ..... ........ 736 IV. LEGAL STANDARDS FOR DEPRIVATION OF THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS ......... 740 A. What is a commitment?. ...................... 741 * David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute. He is also Adjunct Professor of Advanced Constitutional Law, at Denver University, Sturm College of Law; and an Associate Policy Analyst, with the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Kopel is the author of six- teen books and one hundred scholarly journal articles, including the first law school textbook on the Second Amendment: NICHOLAS J. JOHNSON ET AL., FIREARMS LAW AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT: REGULATION, RIGHTS, AND POLICY (2012). Kopel's website is http:// www.davekopel.org. Dr. Carolyn Dobbins conducted review of this paper, and offered many insights for analysis and research. Dr. Dobbins is author of WHAT A LIFE CAN BE: A THERA- PIST'S TAKE ON SCHIZO-AFFECTIVE DISORDER (Bridgeross Communications, 2011). Her articles have been published in Current Psychological Research and Reviews, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Journal of Rheumatology. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Van- derbilt in 1990. Her practice specializes in treating prisoners, substance abusers, and persons with schizophrenia. The authors would like to thank to Justin Miller, University of Colorado Law School class of 2016, for research assistance. ** Clayton E. Cramer is Adjunct Professor of History at the College of Western Idaho. His work on mental health issues includes the 2012 book My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, and the articles Madness, Deinstitutional- ization & Murder, in 13 ENGAGE (March 2012) and Mental Illness and the Second Amendment, 46 CONN. L. REV. 1301 (2014). Cramer's website is http://www.claytoncramer.com. Cramer's work has been cited in Justice Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 588 (2008), in Justice Alito's opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 773 n.21, 776 n.25, 781 (2010), and Justice Breyer's dissent in McDonald, at 932. 2015 Vol. 58 No. 3 715

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most