Civil Commitment, law homework help

Civil Commitment

Please respond to EACH of the following discussion topics and submit them to the discussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If you haven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion.

Remember, to be persuasive, you must use facts and logic. Identify the sources of information that you use, and don’t draw general conclusions from specific incidents.

The 2010 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Comstock made it permissible to use civil commitment to further detain sexually dangerous offenders beyond their date of scheduled release. This means that a person can be convicted, sentenced, serve their entire sentence and be scheduled for release but still detained.

In your post, discuss what is supposed to be accomplished by this further detainment and how this detainment may be terminated. What are some of the requirements of this detainment, and are these requirements justifiable?