Criminal Justice System and Psychiatry-Punishment, medicine and security measure

1(1)本研究的目的是从法律的角度寻找难以治疗的患者和精神障碍罪犯问题的解决方案。解决办法必须是提高日本精神卫生系统的水平。(2)对《造成严重危害的精神病人和准精神病人的医疗和监管法案》进行了研究，特别是对罪犯未来危险性的要求。我们需要讨论这个需求是否合理，是否容易评估。2(1)收集资料，回顾疑难患者和精神障碍罪犯的问题，并对其进行分析。(2)我们采访了刑法研究人员、精神科医生、法官、检察官以及法务部和保健福利部的有关人士。(3)我们考察了法国、韩国和荷兰等国外的情况。我们参观了精神障碍罪犯收容机构和刑事司法系统。(4)我们经常在法律研究者、精神病学家、临床医生、律师、政府官员、记者之间就这些问题交换意见。

1 (1) The purpose of this research is to find the solutions of the problems of patients who are difficult to treat and mentally disordered offenders from the legal point of view. The solutions must be to raise the level of Japanese mental health system.(2) We researched on the bill of the Act for the Medical Treatment and Supervision of Insane and Quasi-insane Persons who Caused Serious Harm, especially requirement of future dangerousness of the offenders. We needed to discuss whether this requirement was justified and easily evaluated. 2 (1) We collected the materials to review the problems of patients who are difficult to treat and mentally disordered offenders, and we analyzed them.(2) We interviewed the people from criminal law researchers, psychiatrists, judges, prosecutors, and people from ministry of law and ministry of health and welfare.(3) We investigated the situations of foreign countries such as France, South Korea and Holland. We visited the institutions for mentally disordered offenders and criminal justice system.(4) We regularly exchanged opinions concerning these problems among legal researchers, psychiatrists, clinicians, lawyers, public officials, journalists.