Criminal responsibility may be invoked for such offences as intentional bodily injury, murder, threatening to commit murder or to inflict serious bodily injury, rape and others.
Domestic violence & Crimes
Domestic violence is defined as a specific crime in Article 191 of the Criminal Code (KZ-1). The Slovene legislator states that anyone who within a family, maltreats, beats or otherwise inflicts painful or humiliating treatment on another person, forcibly removes him or her from the common residence by threatening him or her with an immediate attack on life or body, or restricts his or her freedom of movement, stalking him or her, forcing him or her to work or to give up work, or otherwise placing him or her in a subordinate position in the family by forcibly restricting his or her equal rights, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years.
Neglect or maltreatment of a child
The Criminal Code (KZ-1) also contains specific provisions for the prevention of cruelty and violence against children, and criminalises neglect of a minor and ill-treatment of a minor as a criminal offence in cases where parents, guardians, custodians, foster parents or other persons commit a serious violation of their duties towards the minor, or force, induce or ill-treat the minor to engage in excessive labour, or induce him or her to beg or maltreat the minor. The relevant elements of this offence are that physical or mental suffering has been inflicted on the minor and that such acts have been inflicted by a person on whom the victim is financially or otherwise dependent. Therefore, domestic violence against a child is considered a crime, even it has not caused a certain level of bodily harm.
The Criminal Code also prescribes penalties for violation of family obligations, non-payment of maintenance and incest.