医療観察法の課題について

抄録

In 2005, one important law came into force. The law treats the persons with mental disability, who commit a crime. However, this law has many problems. It is needless to say that the most fundamental problem is the diagnosis in psychiatry. In this paper, we discuss the proper problem of this law. That is to say, the law cannot treat the mentally –handicapped persons who do not response to the present treatment in modern psychiatry. But most of these patients are forced to be administered in the psychiatric hospital nevertheless of no response to treatment. This situation is a very severe problem. .