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    Forensic vs. Civil Commitment Population

    Metadata Updated: November 27, 2024

    This data set shows the count of patients committed to the California State Hospitals during fiscal years 2006-2023. The Department of State Hospitals (DSH) population consists of patients that are mandated for treatment by a criminal or civil court. Patients in this data set that are sent to DSH through the criminal court system and have committed or have been accused of committing a crime linked to their mental illness are referred to as "forensic" commitments. Patients in this data set committed to DSH from civil courts because they are a danger to themselves, or others are referred to as "civil" commitments.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 8, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 8, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 27, 2024
    Publisher California Department of State Hospitals
    Maintainer
    Identifier 7a5cb91d-672f-4c57-acad-2b6ba4ee8352
    Data First Published 2017-06-16T22:39:56.412716
    Data Last Modified 2024-09-09T20:35:07.820439
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 04401c1c-ca16-4ed6-bfe3-b8fa42816962
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3b970a077ef856d167e164f8bafa78ad7f1e04660f8d8ee8586fa5717132cf6c
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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