Feedback on Forensic Mental Health Assessments in a Juvenile Court Clinic Certification Program

Public-sector mental health systems have set forth specialized practice competencies for forensic mental health clinicians conducting court-ordered examinations. This study examined a sample of feedback letters to clinicians who submitted mid-training and final reports for review as part of the requirements for certification as a juvenile court clinician. The most common feedback points were insufficient/irrelevant historical data, problems with clarity/organization of the report, problems with interview/mental status examination, and problems with competency to stand trial data/opinions. Clinicians had fewer deficiencies in their final report compared to their mid-training report, supporting the perspective that forensic training and supervision is associated with better quality reports.     

Automating Administrative Systems in a Law School Teaching Clinic: Designing a Computer System to Process Case and Time Data for Management and Research

The authors describe the design and installation of a computerized administration system in a law school clinic. The automated system gathers, maintains, and reports data about the cases and the activities of clinical teachers and students. It is found that automated case and time data systems can improve the quality of client service and education and simultaneously support empirical research. The authors propose that a national coding protocol for computer management systems be established to facilitate uniform data gathering about clinical education.     

卫生法理论体系建构的前提

当前卫生法体系研究的进路多从体系内容建构的角度出发,论述卫生法体系中所包括的基本内容,但由于卫生法所调整的法律关系与调整方式的多样性,对卫生法的内涵与外延未有一致的认识,因而妨碍了卫生法的理论研究和在实践中的进一步发展。所以研究卫生法理论体系的建构,应当首先缕清其前提。大量的卫生立法与卫生法制活动为研究卫生法理论体系的建构提供了丰富的素材,是卫生法理论体系建构的基础;卫生法学的学术研究与学科建设发展为推动卫生法理论体系的建构提供了强大的助力,是卫生法理论体系建构的支撑;卫生法作为对社会变迁的回应装置,具有社会生长的属性,以对健康权的关切为核心的人文关怀作为卫生法的精神内核,也是构建卫生法理论体系的逻辑起点。在此基础上作为卫生法理论体系建构前提应该围绕着健康权核心来定义卫生法。     

Intellectual Quotient of Juveniles Evaluated in a Forensic Psychiatry Clinic After Committing a Violent Crime*

Abstract: The purpose of this preliminary study is to evaluate if there is a difference between the intelligence quotient (IQ) of 27 adolescent defendants referred to the Bellevue Hospital Center Forensic Psychiatry Clinic after committing violent crimes, and those adolescents in the same age group in the general population of the United States, as defined by the norms of the psychometric testing instrument Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 4th edition (WISC‐IV). The IQ scores and sub‐scores were compared to IQ scores of the general population (mean = 100, SD = 15) using a Z‐test. The mean for the Full Scale IQ was 82.93. The means for the subtests which include Processing Speed Index, Perceptual Reasoning Index, Verbal Comprehension Index, and Working Memory Index, were: 78.48, 87.78, 86.70 (p < 0.05), and 90.78 (p = 0.09) respectively. There is a statistically significant difference in the IQ scores of the violent juveniles studied when compared to the general population.     

Clinic in the times of COVID19

Jindal Global Law Review - This article considers the challenges faced by clinical legal education programmes in responding effectively to the COVID19 pandemic. Client needs are different and more...     

完善我国商业健康保险法制的若干思考

本文分三个方面,就我国刚刚确立起来的三大社会基本医疗保险（城镇职工基本医疗保险、城镇居民基本医疗保险和新型农村合作医疗保险）之外的商业健康保险作了一个比较系统的阐述,对商业健康保险法制的形成、发展中遇到的问题、完善商业健康保险法制的一些措施做了分析,对我国保险法理论和实务的发展阐述了自己的思考。     

医学院校卫生法学专业课程设置探讨

本文通过研究我国医学院校卫生法学专业课程设置的现状,剖析了卫生法学专业课程设置中存在的课程名称不明确、课程内容不合理、研究认识不统一、教学组织及实施不一致等问题。针对这些问题,从优化卫生法学专业课程结构、编写高质量卫生法学教材、改革卫生法学教学方法、加强卫生法学师资培养、扩展卫生法学研究活动五个方面提出了完善卫生法学课程设置的对策建议。     

Alternatives for Youth's Advocacy Program: Reducing Minority Youth Incarceration Placements in Cleveland,Ohio

Detaining and incarcerating juvenile delinquents is ineffective and costly juvenile justice policy. These placements, indicative of the “tough on crime” approach, become problematic for many of these youths who do not have the advantage of legal counsel because they waive this right. In addition, a majority of these youths have a mental health or special education disability that does not get addressed in correctional facilities. Alternatives for Youth's Advocacy Program (AFY) in Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County) is addressing these issues using a holistic approach that includes the provision of civil legal representation to assist youths in accessing disability services and defense attorney support in dispositional planning to reduce juvenile offender placements. This article reports the results of an experimental design pilot study evaluation of AFY that randomly referred and evaluated 82 felony‐offending youths over 21 months. This initial review of the AFY program found it reduced detention center placement days by 47% and decreased state facility incarceration days by 74% (total cost savings $625,898). With 3,000 youths detained in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Detention Center and 1,800 incarcerated in Ohio state facilities annually, policy implications and recommendations are set forth.     

Crack Pipes and Policing: A Case Study of Institutional Racism and Remedial Action in Cleveland

This article uses a case study of selective drug law enforcement in Cleveland, Ohio, to explore the contours of institutional racism in criminal justice policy and practice. Using the multilevel theoretical framework developed by Ian Haney López (2000) that highlights the processes underlying how institutional racism is manifested, I analyze how and why racially discriminatory arrest and charging practices were able to persist in this case as well as how they were eventually reformed. In doing so, I explore the role of institutional empathy (and its withholding) in institutional racism and illustrate how the exploitation of empathy can be used strategically to effect policy change.     

英国医疗卫生法律制度概论

医学科学发达的英国，其医疗卫生管理制度在经历上百年的发展后，已经比较完备。本文首先对英国的医疗管理法律制度内容进行了研究，并总结出其发展特点与遵循的原则。在此基础上，文章从国外经验借鉴的角度，探讨了我国医疗卫生法律制度存在的问题以及完善方向。     

Advancing Health Rights in a Globalized World: Responding to Globalization through a Collective Human Right to Public Health

The right to health was codified in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as an individual right, focusing on individual health services at the expense of public health systems. This article assesses the ways in which the individual human right to health has evolved to meet collective threats to the public's health. Despite its repeated expansions, the individual right to health remains normatively incapable of addressing the injurious societal ramifcations of economic globalization, advancing individual rights to alleviate collective inequalities in underlying determinants of health. By examining modern changes to underlying determinants of health, this article concludes that responding to globalized health threats necessitates a collective right to public health.     

The bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health System and its consequences

In the midst of the healthcare consolidation of the past decade, many have overlooked the inevitable: some of the consolidated systems are bound to fail. The following Commentary gives the reader a close look at the rapid decline of one such system, the Allegheny Health System, and the impact of that failure, the "rescue" of the System's facilities, and the System's ongoing bankruptcy upon delivery of healthcare in the Philadelphia area.