Psychiatry Department, Legal Medical Service of Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2010 Sep;23(5):458-62. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e32833bb31a.
Like other Latin American democratic societies, Chile is supposed to respect legal rights of mentally ill people who are in trouble with the law, and provide them protection, treatment and welfare. Therefore, in this decade, the Chilean Criminal Justice and Mental Health System has undergone significant changes.
Because this article is related to the recent social features that involve different areas such as justice, mental health assistance and forensic psychiatry systems, and thereby the nonexistence of current literature that reviews this matter from a global perspective and its implications for the mental health population involved in the justice system, its review and analysis seems to be interesting.
The 'New Forensic Psychiatry Network' (NFPN) has been putting in relevant efforts to offer proper treatment and forensic assessment taking into account the civil rights of mentally insane people, and the 'Criminal Justice System Reform' (CJSR) is making possible legal conditions for better justice ensuring a more just resolution of insane defendants' and mentally ill convicts' lawsuits. From the author's viewpoint, all these changes are leading to a deep cultural impact on a Chilean's mind, changing their vision of justice and how society should respect insane defendants' and mentally ill convicts' legal rights.
与其他拉丁美洲民主社会一样，智利理应尊重陷入法律困境的精神病患者的合法权利，并为其提供保护、治疗和福利。因此，在这十年间，智利刑事司法和精神卫生系统发生了重大变化。
由于本文涉及到涉及司法、精神卫生援助和法医精神病学系统等不同领域的当前社会特征，且目前没有从全球视角审查和分析这一问题及其对涉及司法系统的精神卫生人群的影响的文献，因此，对其进行审查和分析似乎很有趣。
“新法医精神病学网络”（NFPN）一直在努力提供适当的治疗和法医评估，同时考虑到精神错乱者的公民权利，而“刑事司法系统改革”（CJSR）正在为更好的司法保障创造法律条件，确保对精神错乱被告和精神病罪犯的诉讼做出更公正的裁决。在作者看来，所有这些变化都在对智利人的思维产生深刻的文化影响，改变他们对正义的看法以及社会应该如何尊重精神错乱被告和精神病罪犯的合法权利。
