CURRENT DISPOSITION OF DOMESTIC FORENSIC MEDICINE: PSYCHIATRIC / PSYCHOLOGICAL INJURY AS GREVIOUS BODY INJURY

The article analyzes approaches to determining the severity of harm to health in the form of a mental disorder in the Republic of Belarus.

Purpose of the work: to analyze the regulatory, legal and practical difficulties that arise for specialists in the field of mental health, and also to offer their vision of ways to optimize the procedure for assessing the severity of harm to mental health among crime victims.

Results. The study showed that the current legislative norms of Belarus allow an unambiguous approach, according to which any mental disorders arising as a result of illegal actions can be classified exclusively as serious, which, however, does not correspond to the modern views of clinical and forensic psychiatry. On the other hand, this approach does not meet the goals of restorative justice and mental health, pursuing a key goal, namely the classification of crime.

Conclusions. The authors of the article offer their vision of ways to optimize the procedure for assessing the severity of harm to mental health that occurs to victims as a result of offenses, through the removal of mental disorders from the criminal process into the civil process with the corresponding transformation of the category «moral injury» into «psychiatric/psychological injury».

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