Martens W
Med Law. 2001;20(1):123-31.
Every year a number of psychotic patients commit violent crimes and are recommended for forensic psychiatric treatment. Many of these patients already show risk symptoms before their fatal offense. Despite these risk signs the physicians and psychiatrists, who have the task of intervening in crisis situations of psychotic patients, are frequently waiting too long before compulsory admission of potentially dangerous psychotic patients to a general psychiatric hospital. A physician or psychiatrist, who admits a "harmless" patient against his or her will may risk prosecution. Therefore, many involved professionals are very careful with regard to a forced admission of problematic psychotic patients to a general psychiatric hospital. It is timely, that some risk signs, which are evidently linked to a significantly, increased risk of violent behavior in psychotic patients, become recognized officially by law as a good reason for compulsory admission to a general psychiatric hospital.
每年都有一些精神病患者实施暴力犯罪，并被建议接受法医精神病治疗。这些患者中的许多人在犯下致命罪行之前就已经表现出风险症状。尽管有这些风险迹象，但负责干预精神病患者危机情况的医生和精神科医生，在将潜在危险的精神病患者强制送往普通精神病医院之前，往往等待时间过长。违背患者意愿收治“无害”患者的医生或精神科医生可能面临被起诉的风险。因此，许多相关专业人员在将有问题的精神病患者强制送往普通精神病医院方面非常谨慎。现在是时候让一些明显与精神病患者暴力行为风险显著增加相关的风险迹象，依法被正式认定为强制送往普通精神病医院的正当理由了。
