capacity that may eliminate criminal responsibility (‘legal insanity’) or the assessment of
the defendant’s fitness to stand trial. Vulnerability or needs resulting from vulnerability
are not emphasised. Similarly, the Criminal Code uses the relevant terms in the definition
of ‘legal insanity’: “A perpetrator who when committing an unlawful act was incapable of
understanding the meaning of his or her actions or controlling his or her conduct due to a
mental disorder or mental underdevelopment shall be deemed to be legally insane”.16 This
definition is not in line with the CRPD.
Statistics
The statistical data regarding persons with psychosocial and/or intellectual disabilities in
criminal proceedings – both domestic and cross-border are few or are at least not publicly
available.
The Slovenian Statistical Office publishes the annual number of new security measures of
compulsory psychiatric treatment in the forensic psychiatry unit and at liberty:
Compulsory psychiatric
treatment in the forensic
psychiatry unit
Compulsory psychiatric
treatment at liberty
2018
19
2019
19
2020
14
2021
20
2022
15
42
48
28
43
29
Source: SiStat
The Slovenian Prison Administration included some information on the number of
persons who were considered not criminally responsible and were subjected to the
security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment in the forensic psychiatry unit in its
2021 annual report of the Prison Administration. The same type of data was not included
in the previous annual reports:
Year / Compulsory psychiatric
treatment in the forensic
psychiatry unit
2021
Total
number
New
Discharged
On 31
December
2021
45
15
13
32
Source: Prison Administration
16
Slovenia, Article 29(2) of the Criminal Code (Kazenski Zakonik), 20 May 2008.
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