"Language derived from the law of contract often yields a more 
accurate account of the current state of the law governing mandated 
community treatment, is more likely to be translated into a useful 
descriptive vocabulary for empirical research, and is more likely to 
clarify the policy issues at stake than the currently stalemated form 
of argumentation based on putative rights."

"To characterize the issue in terms of coercion and the deprivation 
of "rights" is to frame the
policy issue in unqualified, give-no-quarter terms."

 From Coercion to Contract: Reframing the Debate on Mandated 
Community Treatment for People with Mental Disorders
Richard J. Bonnie and John Monahan

Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 4, August 2005 ( C 2005)
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-005-5522-9

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