Compulsory Medical Measures in the Criminal Law of Foreign Countries

The article analyzes the legislation of foreign countries, which addresses the issues of the use of compulsory medical measures against persons who have committed a socially dangerous act and have mental disorders. A brief description of Russian legislation is given, as well as the legislation of France, China, Italy, Germany, Spain and Austria. The aim of the work is a comparative legal analysis of the legislation of different countries in order to develop proposals for improving the legislation of the Russian Federation. The research used theoreti-cal methods such as analogy and synthesis, legal methods ‒ generalization and comparison, as well as the general scientific method of system analysis. The authors conclude that the Russian legislator needs to focus on improving compulsory medical measures, taking into account the experience of foreign countries, in particu-lar, to consider the possibility of renaming them to security measures; to expand the circle of persons who can be assigned compulsory medical measures, as well as to set deadlines for their application.