TAILIEUCHUNG - Policy on Prisoners, Sex Offenders with Mental Disorders: Practice of Germany and Some Other Countries and Recommendations for Vietnam
This paper identifies the grounds and contents of the policy and offers reccommen dations to Vietnam, thus contributing to the guarantee of human rights as well as to the addressing of related current practical issues of criminal justice in Vietnam. | VNU Journal of Science: Legal Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2017) 11-24 Policy on Prisoners, Sex Offenders with Mental Disorders: Practice of Germany and Some Other Countries and Recommendations for Vietnam Le Lan Chi* VNU School of Law, 144 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam Received 06 October 2017 Revised 30 November 2017; Accepted 28 December 2017 Abstract: Mental disorders have nagative impacts on prisoners, sex offenders serving sentences and on the realization of the objectives of rehabilitation and crime control. That is why many nations have issued particular policy on such target groups. This paper identifies the grounds and contents of the policy and offers reccommendations to Vietnam, thus contributing to the guarantee of human rights as well as to the addressing of related current practical issues of criminal justice in Vietnam. Keywords: Mental disorders, prisoners, confinement facilities, therapeutic treatments, sex offenders, penalty, chemical castration, surgical castration 1. Introduction medical remedies for the practical enforcement of prison sentences in Germany and other countries in the world. Viet Nam also states a mandatory treatment in the Penal Code and formulates the procedure for applying this measure as a particular procedure in the Criminal Procedure Code, Law on Execution of Criminal Judgments and by-law documents. Nevertheless, it is necessary for Viet Nam to continue complement its policies for criminals with mental ill and sexual crimes, especially in the context of overcrowded prisons and the increasing and evolving complexity of sexual crimes in Viet Nam. This paper stems from primary concepts of mental health and mental illness which is mental disorder; general descriptions of mental health of criminals in general; specific cases of inmates convicted of sexual offenses and the analysis of their causes, an introduction of Prisoners are subjects with a particularly high frequency of mental disorders due to a previous history of
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