Sorry again for the bad picture quality! I had to make this shot in a hurry, so no one would notice or see me on the surveillance cameras!
Yesterday we finally made our excursion to the locked unit for abnormal criminals or in more professional terms: the forensic psychiatry unit. I was supposed to have off that day, of course yesterday morning they changed their mind and I almost couldnt go! But we figured something out in the end, like delivering mail at noon after the excursion… Sigh. At least I was able to go and it was totally brilliant!
First, we met with the head of the departement and he gave us a lecture about the forensic unit and its patients. Abnormal criminals are people that under clause 21/1 of our “criminal” code, are certifiably insane at the time of their criminal act. There are also people who under clause 21/2 were certifiably sane but who are severely “disturbed”. Most people at the unit are shizophrenic and bipolar (manic depressive). Most of them are there for making dangerous threats. How unexciting, but thats Salzburg. If you are abnormal or not is decided by an independent psychiatric expert.
The unit itself is locked. There is place for 15 patients who, depending on several factors, might stay there for up to 5 years! The forensic unit is REALLY small, we were all shocked as to how small it is. There are 2 people in a room, its a total hospital setting with the big difference that there are cameras everywhere! For the protection of the staff. The doctor said they had patients who put the unit on fire several times!
The main goal of the unit is to rehabilitate the patients. They treat them and in the course of a few months most of the people make a huge progress and they can be released before they start to hospitalise. Released depending on what the judge ordered. All the different clauses would be too difficult to explain.
All of the people “released” have certain obligations they have to follow. Like taking their meds, no drugs, no alcohol an so on. To make sure they stick to what they are ordered they have to come to the ambulance once a week to get their blood and urine checked.
The costs are about 400 Euro / day / patient.
I can totally see me writing my thesis on this subject. Quite fascinating! The excursion was totally exciting, I cant wait for the next one next week, to a court hearing!
4:41 pm on November 25th, 2008
was für ein studium machst du nochmal? ich finde das ja sowas von spannend und beneide dich!
9:52 pm on November 25th, 2008
Superspannend – obwohl ich nicht unbedingt an Rehabilitation glaube – kommt sich etwas aufs Verbrechen an etc. – doch auch bin nicht Gott und darf nicht urteilen.
11:24 pm on November 25th, 2008
I think you should write your thesis on it, you sound like you find it very interesting. It is good that you get to go and see various places. 🙂
6:33 pm on November 26th, 2008
Hallo Me,
Bei uns hier auf der Station sind hauptsächlich 21/1er, die haben wasauchimmer gemacht, als sie unzurechnungsfähig waren. Was heisst, entweder sind sie intellgenzvermindert, schwachsinnig (so stehts im STRG), schwer alkoholisiert, oder halt psychisch schwer krank (im schizophrenen Wahn, in einer manischen Phase… so inetwa). Das sind keine normalen Verbrecher, wenn die behandelt werden sind sie zum Großteil wieder völlig harmlos! Solang sie ihre Medikamente nehmen, zum Teil gibts auch Depotspritzen.
Bei den 21/2ern schauts dann schon wieder ganz anders aus. Die werden aber bei uns nur ganz kurz behandelt bevor sie weitergeschoben werden. Die kann man in den 2/3 Monaten nicht rehabilitieren. Laut Arzt machen die auch wahnsinnig schlechte Stimmung auf der Station, deswegen werden die nie lange gehalten.
🙂
9:28 pm on November 27th, 2008
Die 21/2er gehören da meiner Meinung nach auch nicht hin – den 21/1ern traue ich keinen Milimeter – schon die Aussage “solange die ihre Medis nehmen” – hahaha – auf so was vertrauen Ärzte – willkommen Wiederholungstäter.
Was sagen denn die Studien, wieviele halten sich nicht an die Regeln und werden rückfällig?
Wir müssen das übrigens nicht unbedingt diskutieren – ich habe in so ein System einfach kein Vertrauen.
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