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Journal Article
Doing Their Duty: An Empirical Analysis of the Unintended Effect ofTarasoff v. Regentson Homicidal Activity
2014
Overview
The seminal ruling ofTarasoff v. Board of Regents of the Universities of Californiaenacted a duty that required mental health providers to warn potential victims of any real threat to life made by a patient. Many have theorized that this required breach of confidentiality may have adverse effects on effective psychological treatment—but the issue remains unaddressed empirically. Because of the presence of duty-to-warn laws, patients might forgo mental health treatment that would prevent violence. Using a fixed-effects model and exploiting the variation in the timing and style of duty-to-warn laws across states, I find that mandatory duty-to-warn laws cause an increase in the homicide rate of .4, or 5 percent. These results are robust to model specifications and falsification tests and help to clarify the true effect of state duty-to-warn laws.
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University of Chicago Press
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