Prinudno psihijatrijsko lečenje i zatvaranje duševno poremećenih učinilaca krivičnih dela u Belgiji
Coercive Psychiatric Care and Detention Offenders with Mental Disorders in Belgium

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes legal position of the offenders with mental disorders in Belgium. It shows the development of legislation, traditionally (since 1930) based on criminological social defence theory, problems which occurred in earlier laws and attempts to overcome these deficiencies. The paper analyzes: the legal nature of administrative measure detention of mentally ill offenders, conditions for pronounced measure and the method of enforcement. Author notes that the latest changes of law (from 2014 and 2016) aim to mitigate the ambivalent nature of the measure and eliminate reasons for violation of basic rights of the offenders with mental disorders which are coercive treated in special institutions.

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