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Barriers to implementing holistic, community-based treatment for offenders with fetal alcohol conditions

dc.contributor.committeeMemberTurpel-Lafond, Maryen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberThompson, Ruthen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberQuigley, Timen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberZlotkin, Norman K.en_US
dc.creatorMitten, H. Raeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-02T12:47:51Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T04:25:08Z
dc.date.available2007-02-02T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T04:25:08Z
dc.date.created2003-11en_US
dc.date.issued2003-11-01en_US
dc.date.submittedNovember 2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis contends that holistic, community-based treatment is preferable to carceral options for offenders with fetal alcohol conditions, presents emerging support for this contention, identifies barriers to the implementation of community-based treatment, and culminates with analyses of ways of influencing policy reform or of legally mandating non-carceral treatment options. Potential avenues that will be examined include: (1) Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15, including an analysis from Eldridge, Law, and Auton, based on the duty to accommodate disabilities; (2) Constitution Act, 1982, s. 35 and its recognition and affirmation of such relevant treaty right as the alcohol ban, particularly as the ban operates as a contextual factor in a s. 15 Charter analysis as applied to affected treaty beneficiaries; and (3) Articles 23, 24 and 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Article 12(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly as they influence the s. 1 analysis under the Charter. A remedy mandating a positive state obligation to provide community-based treatment likely would require favourable cost-benefit analyses, as well as evidence of effectiveness of the treatment (the latter to be studied in a subsequent interdisciplinary Ph.D. program using qualitative research techniques). The implications of a finding of disability and mental disorder related to fetal alcohol conditions will be examined. The present research topic is at the interface of health and justice, and indeed is multidisciplinary in nature as fetal alcohol influences every aspect of affected individuals' lives. Moreover, the problem is situated in its historical, ideological, global, and trans-disciplinary context.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-02022007-124751en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectfetal alcohol conditionsen_US
dc.subjectcommunity-based treatmenten_US
dc.titleBarriers to implementing holistic, community-based treatment for offenders with fetal alcohol conditionsen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentCollege of Lawen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineCollege of Lawen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Laws (LL.M.)en_US

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