Quelques conséquences de l'application du nouveau code pénal suisse sur la psychiatrie légale [Some consequences of the application of the new Swiss penal code on legal psychiatry]

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Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Quelques conséquences de l'application du nouveau code pénal suisse sur la psychiatrie légale [Some consequences of the application of the new Swiss penal code on legal psychiatry]
Journal
Revue médicale suisse
Author(s)
Gasser J., Gravier B.
ISSN
1660-9379
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2007
Volume
3
Number
125
Pages
2103-6, 2108-10, 2112
Language
french
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Publication types: English Abstract ; Journal Article - Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
The new text of the Swiss penal code, which entered into effect at the beginning of 2007, has many incidences on the practice of the psychiatrists realizing expertises in the penal field or engaged in the application of legal measures imposing a treatment. The most notable consequences of this text are, on the one hand, a new definition of the concept of penal irresponsibility which is not necessarily any more related to a psychiatric diagnosis and, on the other hand, a new definition of legal constraints that justice can take to prevent new punishable acts and which appreciably modifies the place of the psychiatrists in the questions binding psychiatric care and social control.
Keywords
Criminal Law, Forensic Psychiatry, Humans, Switzerland
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