Editing Outpatient commitment (section)

=====Race=====
{{blockquote|"We find no evidence that the AOT Program is disproportionately selecting African Americans for court orders, nor is there evidence of a disproportionate effect on other minority populations. Our interviews with key stakeholders across the state corroborate these findings."}}

{{blockquote|"We found no evidence of racial bias. Defining the target population as public-system clients with multiple hospitalizations, the rate of application to white and black clients approaches parity."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swanson |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Swartz |first2=Marvin |last3=Van Dorn |first3=Richard A. |last4=Monahan |first4=John |last5=McGuire |first5=Thomas G. |last6=Steadman |first6=Henry J. |last7=Robbins |first7=Pamela Clark |display-authors=3 |title=Racial Disparities In Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Are They Real? |journal=Health Affairs |volume=28 |issue=3 |year=2009 |pages=816–26 |doi=10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.816 |doi-access= |pmid=19414892 }}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=October 2017}}}}