The procedure for imposing security measures of compulsory psychiatric treatment and relation to the general and simplified criminal procedure

Abstract

In the focus of this paper is a critical review of certain legal solutions related to the initiation and completion of the procedure for pronouncing the security measures of compulsory psychiatric treatment. The relationship between this special procedure and the general and simplified criminal procedure is reexamined and finds that issue of their transformation is not adequately solved. It is noted that main causes of the problem are inadequate legal terminology, a new concept of acquittal, as well as the wrong attitude about legal nature of the special procedure for pronouncing security measures of psychiatric sharacter.

Keywords

• security measures of psychiatric sharacter
• acquittal
• special procedures
• convicted
• process transformation