What is the crime of mental patients hitting people?

Beating a mental patient involves intentional injury, and intentional injury cannot be exempted because the victim is a mental patient. The act of intentional injury, according to the severity of the consequences, determines whether it constitutes a crime. Intentional injury causes minor injuries to the other party, which is a general illegal act and does not bear criminal responsibility, but should bear corresponding administrative and civil responsibilities. Those who cause the above minor injuries violate the criminal law and should bear criminal responsibility.

1. A mental patient is a person with limited capacity for civil conduct or a person without capacity for civil conduct, and the mental patient has committed criminal acts such as intentional injury. No criminal responsibility shall be investigated. If it is not cured, you can force medical treatment. If he has a legal guardian, you can ask his legal guardian to bear the liability for compensation.

If he has been cured, you can ask him to bear tort compensation.

Mental patients may be sentenced if they are criminally detained for beating others. Intermittent mental patients who commit crimes when they are mentally normal should bear criminal responsibility. In addition, mental patients who have not completely lost their ability to identify or control their own behavior should bear criminal responsibility, but they can be given a lighter or mitigated punishment.

If a mental patient causes harmful results when he cannot identify or control his own behavior, he shall not bear criminal responsibility if he is identified and confirmed by legal procedures.

It is illegal to beat a mental patient. Whether it is a mental patient or other natural person, hitting people is illegal, except for self-defense of others. Beating people are generally detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and a fine of more than 200 yuan and less than 500 yuan is imposed.

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Legal basis: Article 234 of the Criminal Law intentionally hurts another person's body, and he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Whoever commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph and causes serious injuries shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years; Whoever causes death or serious disability by particularly cruel means shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death. Where there are other provisions in this Law, such provisions shall prevail.