Specifics of the implementation of the security measures of medical nature in the Republic of Serbia

Abstract

The medical security measures in the Republic of Serbia include:

– mandatory psychiatric treatment and confinement in a medical institution;

– mandatory psychiatric treatment at liberty;

– mandatory treatment of alcoholics and;

– compulsory Drug Addiction Treatment.

The aim of this presentation is to explain how the medical security measures are implemented in the Republic of Serbia. The methods used in this study are analysis and synthesis of the implementation of security measures in the Republic of Serbia based on many years of practical work in forensic centre for the implementation of security measures. By duration of medical security, measures may be twofold:

– of unlimited duration, when the offender is undergoing medical treatment and keeping in a medical institution, while there is a need for treatment, or until there is no threat to the environment (the length of time is difficult to determine, however, that the most common word on the permanent indefinite treatment and storage required special caution and detailed analysis of all the elements relevant for this decision).

– limited duration, where the duration of treatment is determined by the court and to no longer than three years as provided in the current The Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia.

The basis of every civilized society make the legal and moral norms governing the relations within the community, and thus regulate and protect their most essential element – the man – his physical and psychological integrity.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.