Treatment of Special Categories of Offenders, Workshop 3, Summary Report of the Rapporteur (From Report for 1982 and Resource Material Series Number 23, P 121-130, 1983 - See NCJ-94439)

• NCJ Number: 94446
• Author(s): LS Piow
• Editor(s): LC Pew
• Date Published: 1983
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United Nations

Annotation

Papers on treatment of special categories of offenders cover Japanese programs for mentally disturbed and drug offenders; juvenile sexual offenders in Iraq; and correctional systems in Indonesia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Abstract

The first speaker discussed Japan's laws which mandate compulsory hospitalization with no time limits for mentally disturbed offenders and may infringe such prisoners' rights. Another paper from Japan focused on its high nonprosecution rate of offenders who commit crimes while abusing stimulant drugs and treatment of these offenders in correctional institutions since there are no special facilities for drug offenders. A representative from Indonesia outlined that country's inmate classification procedures and progressive system in which prisoners move from maximum to mimimum security and parole. A paper on sexual perversions in children and adolescents addressed both causes and treatment, but the author revealed that Iraq had no special facilities for such offenders. Singapore's reformative training center was described, with attention to the vocational training, academic education, and counseling offered to young offenders. Finally, an official from Hong Kong discussed managing high-risk and long-term prisoners in a maximum security institution, Stanley Prison, which has about 1,600 inmates. Tables are included.