The British Journal of Psychiatry
May 2017, 210 (5) 311-312
Giles Newton-Howes, Christopher James Ryan
Abstract
Empirical evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) is at best mixed. We examine CTOs through the prism of human rights and discrimination, bearing the evidence in mind, and argue that a necessary condition for their use is that a person lacks decision-making capacity…
