Table of content
Abbreviations ................................................................................................................... iii
Table of content ............................................................................................................... iv
Executive summary ........................................................................................................... v
1.
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1.
Methodology and definitions ............................................................................ 2
1.2.
National definitions and statistics ..................................................................... 5
2.
National legal framework concerning the application of cross-border
instruments to persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities in law and in
practice 8
2.1.
European Arrest Warrant.................................................................................. 8
2.2.
Transfer of Prisoners ....................................................................................... 17
2.3.
European Supervision Order ........................................................................... 19
2.4.
Probation and Alternative Sanctions .............................................................. 23
3.
National legal and policy frameworks concerning defendants and persons
deprived of liberty with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities in law and in
practice 26
3.1.
National legal framework and its application in practice ............................... 26
3.1.1.
National framework concerning deprivation of liberty .................................. 26
3.1.1.1. Proceedings for the application of security measures.................................... 29
3.1.1.2. Deprivation of liberty of criminally responsible defendants with psychosocial
and/or intellectual disabilities ........................................................................................ 42
3.1.2.
National framework concerning alternatives and probation ......................... 50
3.2.
National policy framework .............................................................................. 52
3.2.1.
National policy framework concerning deprivation of liberty ........................ 52
3.2.2.
National policy framework concerning alternatives and probation ............... 53
4.
Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 54
5.
Recommendations .......................................................................................... 56
6.
Bibliography .................................................................................................... 61
6.1.
Legislative instruments ................................................................................... 61
6.2.
Case-law .......................................................................................................... 62
6.3.
Literature (including UN/CoE reports and other documents) ........................ 62
ANNEX I: NATIONAL CASE STUDY - An open forensic and social psychiatry unit in
Ljubljana
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