Abstract
In France, sex offenders can be condemned to a therapeutic injunction, instead of or after an imprisonment period. In order to reinforce the prevention and punishment of sexual offences, the condemnation law (June 17, 1998) obliges a sexual convict to submit to surveillance and assistances measures and, in some cases, to mandatory medical care (a treating physician, psychiatrist or psychologist, and a coordinating physician, the intermediary between medicine and the courts). The aim of this research was to assess the therapeutic injunction functioning ( n = 16) and to identify the obstacles in coordinating medical and judicial professionals. Therefore, we conducted a local survey that involved in-person interviews with medical (treating physicians and coordinating physicians) and judicial (sentencing judge) professionals in charge of the 16 sex offenders (non incestuous paedophiles) condemned to a therapeutic injunction. The treating physicians and the coordinating physicians were very different in their settings and in their understanding of the therapeutic injunction procedure. Health and judicial professionals criticized the lack of interactions between professionals, but not the therapeutic injunction itself. This work highlighted the necessity of (1) a better coordination between health and justice professionals, (2) the creation of a treatment and assessment centre for sex offenders.
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