Abstract
ONE area of great concern to psychiatry and the law is the prediction of the future danger of an individual to society. The courts must bear a very heavy responsibility in "sanity" hearings and criminal proceedings, in which the central issue revolves around the right of the individual to be free in society, on the one hand, and the collective right of society to be protected from the dangerous person, on the other. Society has traditionally placed the highest value on the rights of the individual. Recent Supreme Court decisions affecting the right to counsel, protection from improper search and . . .
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