2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Discussion about the treatment system of mentally disordered offenders
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24530073
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Criminal law
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 精神障害犯罪者 / 仮釈放 / 満期釈放 / 矯正施設 / 釈放後精神保健計画 / 精神科強制通院制度 / 医療観察法 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
“The Act on Medical Care and Treatment for Persons Who Have Caused Serious Cases Under the Condition of Insanity” created a new psychiatric treatment system in order to ensure that offenders who had committed grave criminal acts receive continuous and appropriate medical treatment, with the aims of improving their medical condition and thus preventing repeat offenses, and facilitating their reentry into society.
However, as the Act is strongly linked to the system of criminal insanity, persons with mental disorders already serving a prison sentence are not eligible for treatment under the Act. Therefore, their treatment compliance and living conditions will not be monitored when they are released from prisons. We need special outpatient treatment system fort them, then continuity of care for them would be possible. From that perspective, compulsory “mental health discharge plan” and “Assisted Outpatient Treatment program”in New York would be worthy of consideration.
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| Free Research Field |
刑事法
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