정신질환자에 의한 ‘묻지마범죄’의 실태와 대책방안 - 정신건강복지법상 입원제도를 중심으로, 일선 경찰관의 관점에서-

Abstract

In recent years, our society has seen a growing number of violent incidents such as murder and arson by mentally ill people, causing anxiety to many. The crimes committed by mentally ill people are so-called "don't ask" crimes with no apparent motive. The arson attack in Jinju this year was also a violent crime against an unspecified number of people without any clear motive. But I note that in addition to this case, there has been an increasing number of crimes in recent years that they claim to be mentally ill themselves. What I felt when my parents called 112 at home for the riot act as a police officer is the fact that the mental health welfare law of our country is problematic. As a result of the revised Mental Health and Welfare Act focusing too much on human rights protection, the public safety section is threatened. In this paper, we need to find out the characteristics of the crime, the crime statistics of the mentally ill, the hospitalization status of the mentally ill, the schizophrenic disease has been investigated as there are a lot of recent cases of schizophrenia among the mentally ill, and the mental health care institution chief has to decide whether or not he or she is discharged from hospitalization after review by the Mental Health Review Committee, and check whether he or not he/she has been discharged from hospitalization every two months. Second, the regulation on the admission system argued for the deletion of hospitalization requirements in the case of hospitalization by a third guardian, and the head of a psychiatric institution, etc., was allowed to hospitalize a mental patient with a period of two weeks for accurate diagnosis of the symptoms if the diagnosis by a psychiatrist found that the hospitalization was necessary. In the case of a fourth administrative hospital, if a suspected mental patient is reported to the police repeatedly, it is mandatory to notify the mental health center to decide whether to enter the institution or not." In the case of a fifth emergency hospital, police officers, who are the main body of consent, are proposed to receive compulsory education for the mental health care sector and are exempted from the mental health care system.