Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1973 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


Legal Needs of the Institutionalized Mentally Ill

FAIN: FT-11630-73

Thomas M. Lockney
University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND 58202-6059)

To study legal problems of the institutionalized mentally ill, and the role of the civil commitment process as a means of social control. To interpret the constitutional and philosophic issues inherent in this method of dealing with deviant behavior.