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解决难治性病人和精神障碍违法者问题的办法。解决办法必须是提高日本精神卫生系统的水平。(2)我们研究了《对造成严重伤害的精神病和准精神病患者进行医疗和监督法》的法案，特别是对犯罪者未来犯罪的要求。我们需要讨论这一要求是否合理，是否容易评估。2（1）收集资料，回顾难治性精神病患者和精神障碍违法者的问题，并进行分析。(2)我们采访了刑法研究人员、精神病学家、法官、检察官以及法务省和厚生省的人。(3)我们调查了法国、韩国和荷兰等外国的情况。我们参观了精神障碍罪犯的机构和刑事司法系统。(4)我们定期在法律的研究人员、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.