Chapter V: Therapeutic injunction by the trial court

The sentencing court may, as an additional penalty, require persons who have committed the offence provided for in article L. 3421-1 to submit to a therapeutic injunction, in accordance with the procedures defined in articles L. 3413-1 to L. 3413-4.The duration of the measure is twenty-four months at most.

Failure to comply with the decision ordering a therapeutic injunction is punishable by the penalties provided for in articles L. 3421-1 and L. 3425-1. However, these penalties are not applicable when the therapeutic injunction constitutes a specific obligation imposed on a person who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment suspended on probation or suspended with an obligation to perform community service.