SPECIAL PROCEDURE FOR IMPROVEMENT MEASURES IN PARAGUAYAN LEGISLATION. VARIOUS THEORIES

Abstract

In the Paraguayan criminal process, the improvement measure can be found as one of the special procedures, which is used as a legal-criminal consequence, applicable to a person under investigation, who, due to issues related to mental disorders, is considered beyond reproach to act in process for having committed a criminal offense punishable by deprivation of liberty, being under certain physical-mental conditions that entails confinement in a psychiatric establishment or a detoxification establishment. Using the non-experimental method for the investigation, collecting information on the different procedures that are currently developed in the Form Code and verifying through documents which would be the best of all the measures or ways to carry out the special process. Therefore, in this work, the appropriate post-criminal procedure will be determined for use when elements typical of the existence of mental disorder are found.