North Country Forum
Dr. Carney’s most recent posts are to be found here. He is in the process of compiling a complete archive of all articles he has written since his retirement from professional social work practice in 2010. All his blogs have as their focus issues pertaining to social justice; are generally placed in their historical context; and, ultimately, are subjected to in-depth analyses whose aim is to promote a full understanding of the issues being addressed.
Big Brother Is Watching: A Strategy to End Kendra’s Law in New York State, Part II
[This is the second part of a two-part article about the system of surveillance and social control that has been established in this country with psychiatric involuntary commitment laws at its center, and about a possible campaign to end Kendra’s Law or Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York State. Part I has already been posted.] … But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, Still crazy after all these years … “Still Crazy After All These Years” Paul Simon, 1975 New York’s involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) law, known as Assisted Outpatient Treatment and popularly as Kendra’s Law, was instituted in 1999 after a ten-year...