Selected problems in the forensic-psychiatric evaluation of persons posing a likelihood of repeating a criminal act
Florkowski, A.; Zboralski, K.; Nowacka, A.; Strójwas, K.; Flinik-Jankowska, M.; Konopa, A.; Łacisz, J.; Wierzbiński, P.
Polski merkuriusz lekarski organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego 37(219): 192-195
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1426-9686 PMID: 25345283 Document Number: 672602
In the current penal code, compared to previous regulations, there have been alterations concerning medical security measures. These amendments have been prompted by socio-politic circumstances in Poland as well as implementation of Mental Health Act. According to the current law the court, on the request of expert psychiatrists, can pronounce a sentence of obligatory stay in psychiatric institution for perpetrator of criminal act who has been deemed not sane due to 31 subsection 1 of penal code and who is predictably able of recidivism. In legal-medical practice those less experienced expert psychiatrists may encounter difficulties producing expertise for the court, especially evaluating probability of recurrence of committing a criminal act and resulting request for psychiatric detention. In order to make this issue more acquainted we present a review of literature concerning it.