Legal relationships of psychiatry and penology in Germany

Psychiatry and penology are responsible together for adequate therapy of mentally ill and disordered criminals. The increased security demands of current criminal policy on the penal and forensic hospital treatment have to be moderately counteracted. The considerable increase in deculpation according to Section 21 of the German Penal Code (StGB) during the past 30 years should be balanced by more limited application, especially regarding antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and sexual identity disorder (paraphilia).