Colorado legal term
Treatment in Colorado Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Colorado legislative session
In Colorado criminal law, “Treatment” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Colorado criminal code.
What does “Treatment” mean in Colorado criminal law?
"Treatment" means therapy, monitoring, and supervision of any sex offender which conforms to the standards created by the board pursuant to section 16-11.7-103. (C.R.S. § 16-11.7-102)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Attempt to escape
- Fraud by check
- Sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist
- Unlawful distribution of a suicide recording
- Unlawful ownership of dangerous dog
- Unlawful sexual contact
- Aiding escape from an institution for the care and treatment of persons with behavioral or mental health disorders
- Assault in the second degree
- Illegal possession or consumption of ethyl alcohol or marijuana by an underage person
- Mandatory reports of mistreatment of at-risk elders and at-risk adults with IDD
- Manslaughter
- Misuse of gametes
Related terms in the same statutes
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