What Is Correctional Psychiatry?

Jiaozheng Psychiatry is a branch discipline that specializes in the treatment and supervision of people with mental disorders with harmful behaviors, as well as the behavior correction of various criminals and the study of mental health problems in prisons. The research content mainly deals with the treatment of mentally handicapped people in prisons, reform institutions, and guardianship hospitals affiliated with the public security department; it also includes the treatment of some mentally handicapped people without the ability to stand trial or serve a sentence. ^[1]