Legalidad de la Aplicación de Medidas Médicas Coercitivas en el Derecho Penal

Iryna V.  Kalinina; Volodymyr M.  Kupriienko; Iryna I.  Shulhan; Dmytro O.  Pylypenko; Olena A.  Kozeratska

doi:10.46398/cuestpol.3971.06

Iryna V. Kalinina Donetsk State University of Management https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5199-9545
Volodymyr M. Kupriienko Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1601-0679
Iryna I. Shulhan Lviv Polytechnic National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9623-3495
Dmytro O. Pylypenko Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-6178
Olena A. Kozeratska State Institution “Center for Mental Health and Monitoring of Drugs and Alcohol of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-9657

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3971.06

Keywords: coercive medical measures, mental illness, mental disorder, criminal law measures, human rights

Abstract

The objective of the study was to determine the legality of the application of coercive medical measures and to develop recommendations to improve the legislative regulation of their use. The study included data on the number of offenders with mental disorders; the empirical background was the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the application of coercive medical measures; provisions of the legislation of 31 countries. Methods of system approach, comparison, descriptive analysis, pragmatic approach, prognosis were used. The national criminal law of most states regulates the application of coercive medical measures to persons who have committed a crime in a state of limited sanity or insanity or have acquired it before sentencing or during the execution of the sentence, but its practical application causes several complications. It is concluded that the legislative definition of coercive medical measures corresponds to human rights legislation. But there are problems with its practical application. Proposals were made to amend national and international legislation: to broaden the range of grounds for the application of coercive medical measures; regulate the possibility of early termination of a coercive medical measure; oblige the courts to determine the appropriate terms.

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Author Biographies

Iryna V. Kalinina, Donetsk State University of Management

PhD in Law, Head of the Department of the Special-Law Disciplines, Faculty of Law and Public Management, Donetsk State University of Management, 87513, Mariupol, Ukraine.

Volodymyr M. Kupriienko, Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, 03142, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Iryna I. Shulhan, Lviv Polytechnic National University

PhD in Law, Assistant, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Institute of Law, Psychology and Innovative Education, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 79013, Lviv, Ukraine.

Dmytro O. Pylypenko, Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law Disciplines, Faculty No2, Kryvyi Rih Educational and Scientific Institute, Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, 50000, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.

Olena A. Kozeratska, State Institution “Center for Mental Health and Monitoring of Drugs and Alcohol of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”

PhD in Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Criminalistics and Criminal Procedure of the Institute of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine; Head of the Department of Forensic Psychiatric Examination of the State Institution “Center for Mental Health and
Monitoring of Drugs and Alcohol of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, 04050, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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