Pedophilia is a sexual preference disorder. Not everyone with pedophilia commits sexual offences against children, and not every perpetrator is a pedophile. Failure to distinguish between the two contributes to stigma and hinders possibilities of psychosocial support for individuals with pedophilia. German Prevention Project Dunkelfeld has shown that the therapy for persons with pedophilia reduces risk factors for child sexual abuse and the frequency of child pornography offences. Other initiatives also provide support to individuals with pedophilia and sex offenders to prevent offences. It appears that in Slovenia, prevention and treatment scheme is not available, and that there is no demand for it. Treatment in Slovenia is only provided to child sexual offenders as a result of criminal procedure in the correction facilities and the Probation Administration. Collaboration between experts from the criminal justice system and public health system for the purpose of treating offenders has not yet been successful. If a person confides in a doctor on committing a child sexual abuse, the hierarchy of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia (KZ-1) and related laws, regarding a doctors’ duty to report a crime, is unclear. In sexual assault trials, they are not exempted from the obligation to testify. The same obligations apply to psychologists, social workers, healthcare personnel, and others, who become aware of a crime in line of their professional duties.
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