Coercive medico-legal interventions are frequently employed to avoid individuals deemed to be not able to make skilled decisions about their health, such as minors, people with psychological disease, special needs or troublesome alcohol or other drug use, from damaging themselves or others. Topics addressed in this volume include: mandatory treatment and uncontrolled detention orders in civil mental health and impairment law; compulsory alcohol and drug treatment programs and drug courts; neighborhood treatment orders; the use of well-being cards with Indigenous populations; mandated treatment of seriously ill minors; as well as adult guardianship and substituted decision-making regimes. These contributions try to shed light on why we utilize coercive interventions, whether we should, whether they are effective in accomplishing the advantages that are used to validate their usage, and the impact that they have on some of society’s most susceptible citizens in the names of ‘justice’ and ‘treatment’.
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