The subject of analysis in this work is legislative innovations governing the procedure for the temporary placement of an accused and suspect in a medical organization providing psychiatric care in inpatient conditions (federal law 491-FZ and federal law 500-FZ). The author analyzes the grounds and persons initiating the application of the said measure; goals and procedural form of its application; a set of guarantees for persons in respect of whom this measure is applied. As a result, the work reveals the main collisions of the introduced normative innovations; the gaps in the regulation of the fundamental aspects of the provision of emergency psychiatric care was noted; actual suggestions and recommendations were made in these matters.
accused, mental disorder, temporary placement in a medical organization providing psychiatric care in inpatient conditions, judicial control, guarantees of the accused persons’ rights
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