INTRODUCTION tistics and data about cross-border cases in which persons from the target group had been involved. The interviews were carried out during the period May-July 2022 with: three judges from different courts and instances, an expert witness psychologist, a psychologist from the National Preventive Mechanism, a psychologist (former probation officer) from a prison, a psychiatrist, two social workers from a service providing NGO who work on compulsory treatment cases and two persons under compulsory treatment. 10 SLAVKA KUKOVA