The paper deals with the principle of legality from the perspective of crime against humanity proceedings in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). During the armed conflict in BiH many war crimes were committed, among all others, a lot of crimes against humanity. In the time when the crimes were committed, a crime against humanity was not prescribed by the in effect criminal code. Despite that fact, criminal courts in BiH convicted numerous offenders for crimes against humanity on the basis of its prescription in international law. That led the author to the question: what was the path of crime against humanity proceedings in BiH? In the first part of the paper, the author gives an overview on the matter of jurisdiction for crime against humanity in BiH and position of principle of legality in the BiH legal system. That part also contains the insight into the main characteristics of the principle of legality's understanding in different legal traditions, but also the insight into this principle understanding in the international (criminal) law. In the second part, the author analyses Court of BiH's judgments in order to find out what was the source of law used by this court for its crime against humanity convictions. Thereafter, the author analyses Constitutional Court of BiH's decisions related to the alleged breach of BH Constitution and ECHR in relation to the principle of legality regarding crime against humanity proceedings. At the end, the paper gives the overview of ECtHR case law related to the crime against humanity proceedings in BiH - Šimšić v. BiH and Maktouf and Damjanović v. BiH cases. In the last part, the author, taking into consideration understanding the principle of legality in BiH legal tradition, presents the main conceptual problems that were raised from the crime against humanity proceedings in BiH.
{"title":"Principle of legality and crime against humanity proceedings in Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"Olivera Ševo","doi":"10.5937/crimen2102182s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen2102182s","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the principle of legality from the perspective of crime against humanity proceedings in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). During the armed conflict in BiH many war crimes were committed, among all others, a lot of crimes against humanity. In the time when the crimes were committed, a crime against humanity was not prescribed by the in effect criminal code. Despite that fact, criminal courts in BiH convicted numerous offenders for crimes against humanity on the basis of its prescription in international law. That led the author to the question: what was the path of crime against humanity proceedings in BiH? In the first part of the paper, the author gives an overview on the matter of jurisdiction for crime against humanity in BiH and position of principle of legality in the BiH legal system. That part also contains the insight into the main characteristics of the principle of legality's understanding in different legal traditions, but also the insight into this principle understanding in the international (criminal) law. In the second part, the author analyses Court of BiH's judgments in order to find out what was the source of law used by this court for its crime against humanity convictions. Thereafter, the author analyses Constitutional Court of BiH's decisions related to the alleged breach of BH Constitution and ECHR in relation to the principle of legality regarding crime against humanity proceedings. At the end, the paper gives the overview of ECtHR case law related to the crime against humanity proceedings in BiH - Šimšić v. BiH and Maktouf and Damjanović v. BiH cases. In the last part, the author, taking into consideration understanding the principle of legality in BiH legal tradition, presents the main conceptual problems that were raised from the crime against humanity proceedings in BiH.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The pandemic caused by the spread of the infectious disease COVID-19, which affected the entire planet, caused not only the global health crisis, changing the usual way of life of the majority of the world's population, but also affected almost all areas of the state and social system. The health systems were most affected; however, in addition to them, the effects of measures adopted by national legislators or other competent authorities to eliminate or reduce the risk of spreading the disease have affected, inter alia, economic stability, but also challenged the judicial authorities given that in the new circumstances it was not easy to ensure their normal functioning. This primarily refers to the criminal justice, given the importance of cases and the need for urgent action, since it is necessary to ensure the conduct of trials and the work of all procedural entities in conditions that, at least in one period, implied drastic restrictions on some basic civil and human rights and freedoms. In that context, it is especially important to review the justification and legality of the measures introduced in the Republic of Serbia during the state of emergency with the aim of more or less normal operation of the judicial system in conditions when social life was almost completely paralyzed. In addition, there is the question of what challenges and controversial issues are generally posed before criminal law in a pandemic, as well as the analysis of data on the crime rate and the overall crime situation in the Republic of Serbia in the period since the introduction of the state of emergency and during the pandemic.
{"title":"Criminal legal challenges in Republic of Serbia during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Ivan Đokić, Dragana Čvorović","doi":"10.5937/crimen2103259d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen2103259d","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic caused by the spread of the infectious disease COVID-19, which affected the entire planet, caused not only the global health crisis, changing the usual way of life of the majority of the world's population, but also affected almost all areas of the state and social system. The health systems were most affected; however, in addition to them, the effects of measures adopted by national legislators or other competent authorities to eliminate or reduce the risk of spreading the disease have affected, inter alia, economic stability, but also challenged the judicial authorities given that in the new circumstances it was not easy to ensure their normal functioning. This primarily refers to the criminal justice, given the importance of cases and the need for urgent action, since it is necessary to ensure the conduct of trials and the work of all procedural entities in conditions that, at least in one period, implied drastic restrictions on some basic civil and human rights and freedoms. In that context, it is especially important to review the justification and legality of the measures introduced in the Republic of Serbia during the state of emergency with the aim of more or less normal operation of the judicial system in conditions when social life was almost completely paralyzed. In addition, there is the question of what challenges and controversial issues are generally posed before criminal law in a pandemic, as well as the analysis of data on the crime rate and the overall crime situation in the Republic of Serbia in the period since the introduction of the state of emergency and during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Street development is a form of development and content of all elements of a significant criminal offense and was committed against one or more persons, who walked, known or unknown to the executor, performed in public places that should become proposed, parks, public garages, entrances and stairs in residential buildings, etc.). They belong to the more frequent types of robbery, characterized by less sophistication in execution and direct confrontation that determines the quantity of fear suffered, the scope and intensity of the studied consequences. The aim of the research was to examine the influence of the previous experience of the perpetrators of the robbery on the way of choosing the victim, the place of victimization and the presence of other persons who would be in the immediate or close environment of the street robbery victim. The sample consisted of 42 respondents who committed street robbery out of 120 examined perpetrators of the crime of robbery and serious cases of robbery and robbery, who were serving a prison sentence in the penitentiary in Sremska Mitrovica. Data were collected through an anonymous survey. The results show that there will be differences in the approach to victim first choice, place of execution, internal and external presence of others, between executor who have already and those who have no previous experience in development research. The executors of robbery who have already committed this act are not more inclined to type a potential victim, but they would rather decide to immediately commit a street robbery by encountering a victim with whom the "prey" is visually noticeable. When choosing the place where the crime was committed, they are more inclined to emphasize the possibility of safe removal, but they are more inclined to say that when they commit the crime at night, it will still be in a place that is not lit. Experience predisposes them to pay less attention to the external presence of other persons, while perpetrators who commit robbery for the first time give priority to victimization when the victim is alone. Proper understanding of these indicators can contribute to the qualitative improvement of the analysis, which will facilitate our identification of key starting points in the selection of the best solutions for effective intervention, in order to reduce street robberies.
{"title":"The influence of criminal career on the manner of perpetrating street robbery","authors":"B. Banović, Ž. Braković","doi":"10.5937/crimen2102132b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen2102132b","url":null,"abstract":"Street development is a form of development and content of all elements of a significant criminal offense and was committed against one or more persons, who walked, known or unknown to the executor, performed in public places that should become proposed, parks, public garages, entrances and stairs in residential buildings, etc.). They belong to the more frequent types of robbery, characterized by less sophistication in execution and direct confrontation that determines the quantity of fear suffered, the scope and intensity of the studied consequences. The aim of the research was to examine the influence of the previous experience of the perpetrators of the robbery on the way of choosing the victim, the place of victimization and the presence of other persons who would be in the immediate or close environment of the street robbery victim. The sample consisted of 42 respondents who committed street robbery out of 120 examined perpetrators of the crime of robbery and serious cases of robbery and robbery, who were serving a prison sentence in the penitentiary in Sremska Mitrovica. Data were collected through an anonymous survey. The results show that there will be differences in the approach to victim first choice, place of execution, internal and external presence of others, between executor who have already and those who have no previous experience in development research. The executors of robbery who have already committed this act are not more inclined to type a potential victim, but they would rather decide to immediately commit a street robbery by encountering a victim with whom the \"prey\" is visually noticeable. When choosing the place where the crime was committed, they are more inclined to emphasize the possibility of safe removal, but they are more inclined to say that when they commit the crime at night, it will still be in a place that is not lit. Experience predisposes them to pay less attention to the external presence of other persons, while perpetrators who commit robbery for the first time give priority to victimization when the victim is alone. Proper understanding of these indicators can contribute to the qualitative improvement of the analysis, which will facilitate our identification of key starting points in the selection of the best solutions for effective intervention, in order to reduce street robberies.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of the paper is to determine the main characteristics of the crime in question. It was pointed out that this is a criminal norm that provides protection to labor relations in a general way, i.e. workers' rights. Therefore, there are numerous ambiguities in judicial practice, mostly concerning the legal qualification of the violation of labor regulations and issues of proper application of the ne bis in idem principle. The paper specifically points to de lege ferenda legal solutions that would aim to more clearly determine the scope of labor rights that are protected by the relevant criminal norm.
{"title":"Violation of labour rights and social security rights: The problems in practice and the need for revision","authors":"A. Stevanovic","doi":"10.5937/crimen2102167s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen2102167s","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is to determine the main characteristics of the crime in question. It was pointed out that this is a criminal norm that provides protection to labor relations in a general way, i.e. workers' rights. Therefore, there are numerous ambiguities in judicial practice, mostly concerning the legal qualification of the violation of labor regulations and issues of proper application of the ne bis in idem principle. The paper specifically points to de lege ferenda legal solutions that would aim to more clearly determine the scope of labor rights that are protected by the relevant criminal norm.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It comes as no surprise that vast economic benefit is obtained through crime and that all necessary measures need to be taken in order to appropriate those ill-gotten gains. Deprivation of criminal assets assures effective prevention of their use in future criminal activities, simultaneously advancing the principle that crime does not pay. One of the fastest developing forms of deprivation is extended criminal confiscation, which is understood as recovery of property deriving from vague, assumed criminal activity. An important role in shaping the regime of extended criminal confiscation has been played by international and supranational organisations, hence the paper includes the analysis of relevant stipulations in five capital international documents, and, having in mind recent vivid legislative activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, analysis of material criminal law norms in its four jurisdictions as well. Analysis includes discussion on a) the scope of crimes liable to extended confiscation, b) circumstances that could indicate on the criminal origin of the property, c) forms of procedural safeguards that are granted to confiscation subjects. International legal standards stipulate the option to utilize statutory legal presumptions and automatic reversal of the onus of proof, or circumstantial proof of illicit origin of assets and balanced onus. Both alternatives are present in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although none often used in practice. This unfavourable picture can be argued by inadequate elaboration of certain elements of the construct and, in some jurisdictions, restrictive approach in determining triggering offences. Improvement of normative framework, along with the other practical, organisational and other activities, is essential to fully utilize criminal policy potential this form of confiscation has.
{"title":"In rem contra culpam?: Extended asset confiscation in international and Bosnian-Herzegovinian criminal law","authors":"Darko Datzer, Eldan Mujanović","doi":"10.5937/crimen2002145d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen2002145d","url":null,"abstract":"It comes as no surprise that vast economic benefit is obtained through crime and that all necessary measures need to be taken in order to appropriate those ill-gotten gains. Deprivation of criminal assets assures effective prevention of their use in future criminal activities, simultaneously advancing the principle that crime does not pay. One of the fastest developing forms of deprivation is extended criminal confiscation, which is understood as recovery of property deriving from vague, assumed criminal activity. An important role in shaping the regime of extended criminal confiscation has been played by international and supranational organisations, hence the paper includes the analysis of relevant stipulations in five capital international documents, and, having in mind recent vivid legislative activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, analysis of material criminal law norms in its four jurisdictions as well. Analysis includes discussion on a) the scope of crimes liable to extended confiscation, b) circumstances that could indicate on the criminal origin of the property, c) forms of procedural safeguards that are granted to confiscation subjects. International legal standards stipulate the option to utilize statutory legal presumptions and automatic reversal of the onus of proof, or circumstantial proof of illicit origin of assets and balanced onus. Both alternatives are present in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although none often used in practice. This unfavourable picture can be argued by inadequate elaboration of certain elements of the construct and, in some jurisdictions, restrictive approach in determining triggering offences. Improvement of normative framework, along with the other practical, organisational and other activities, is essential to fully utilize criminal policy potential this form of confiscation has.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we have come to some important conclusions regarding the impact of media on young and crime. In the beginning, we have analyzed some principles of operant conditioning and social learning theory which can explain the influence of media on behavior of adolescents. After that is remarked that nowadays reality programs and social networks are especially dangerous in forming young's characters and some recommendations are given in order to improve this state. Regarding the relation between media and crime, it is discussed that moral panic and penal populism are one of the consequences of bad media's policy which is frequently caused by profit motive and inadequate perception of punitive penal policy. Finally, given examples of Je suis Charlie case and notorious story about Werther effect lighted up our explication of the importance of media in a contemporary society and confirmed the hypothesis that the media nowadays have incomprehensible power in forming people's behavior.
{"title":"Media, crime and youth","authors":"Aleksandar Kvastek","doi":"10.5937/crimen1902174k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen1902174k","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we have come to some important conclusions regarding the impact of media on young and crime. In the beginning, we have analyzed some principles of operant conditioning and social learning theory which can explain the influence of media on behavior of adolescents. After that is remarked that nowadays reality programs and social networks are especially dangerous in forming young's characters and some recommendations are given in order to improve this state. Regarding the relation between media and crime, it is discussed that moral panic and penal populism are one of the consequences of bad media's policy which is frequently caused by profit motive and inadequate perception of punitive penal policy. Finally, given examples of Je suis Charlie case and notorious story about Werther effect lighted up our explication of the importance of media in a contemporary society and confirmed the hypothesis that the media nowadays have incomprehensible power in forming people's behavior.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71208923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, we analyzed the violence of youth over parents. Parental victimization is the topic that is not enough revived in foreign, and especially not in domestic scientific literature. When it comes to our country, the focus of domestic researchers on two types of domestic violence is evident. Violence over women and children are considered to be the only relevant and highly troubling type of victimization by family violence. Our paper goals were to describe the characteristics of the perpetrators and victims, the characteristics of violence and family dynamics, and to try to understand the findings from the ecosystem's perspective. The ecosystem theory explains violence by the ontogenic, microsystem, mesosystem and egzosystem factors. We examined two dimensions of the model: ontogenetic, which emphasize individual characteristics, and microsystem - which is focused on factors connected with family system. We used documentary data on parents victimization gathered from the electronic database from Belgrade's Centers for Social Work for the period from 2010. to 2016. The sample consists of 85 files of fathers and mothers who were violated by their children, age 18-14. The data was collected and then statistically processed. The findings indicate that victims are mostly female, living in single-parent families, with poor educational, working and mental health status. It is also indicative that the share of fathers in the total number of victimized parents has a trend of growth. We noticed the differences in the structure of families from which parents come. Mothers mostly live alone with children, and fathers in a two-parent family. We find out that the predominant abusers are sons. The mental health of the perpetrators, regardless of gender, is fragile, and they are existencially dependent on their parents. Most of the parents are victimized by physical or physical and other forms of violence. The type of violence is significantly related to the sex of the abuser and the state of his mental health. Victimization is, as a rule, repeated and in a large number of cases, there is a danger of further progression of violence. Family dynamics is characterized by the absence of boundaries, rules, with parental permissiveness, and powerlessness. High dysfunctionality of family relations can be noted. In summary, the findings provide empirical confirmation of the ecosystem model assumptions.
{"title":"Violence of young people over parents in Belgrade: Analysis of official data","authors":"M. Ljubičić","doi":"10.5937/CRIMEN1901019L","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/CRIMEN1901019L","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyzed the violence of youth over parents. Parental victimization is the topic that is not enough revived in foreign, and especially not in domestic scientific literature. When it comes to our country, the focus of domestic researchers on two types of domestic violence is evident. Violence over women and children are considered to be the only relevant and highly troubling type of victimization by family violence. Our paper goals were to describe the characteristics of the perpetrators and victims, the characteristics of violence and family dynamics, and to try to understand the findings from the ecosystem's perspective. The ecosystem theory explains violence by the ontogenic, microsystem, mesosystem and egzosystem factors. We examined two dimensions of the model: ontogenetic, which emphasize individual characteristics, and microsystem - which is focused on factors connected with family system. We used documentary data on parents victimization gathered from the electronic database from Belgrade's Centers for Social Work for the period from 2010. to 2016. The sample consists of 85 files of fathers and mothers who were violated by their children, age 18-14. The data was collected and then statistically processed. The findings indicate that victims are mostly female, living in single-parent families, with poor educational, working and mental health status. It is also indicative that the share of fathers in the total number of victimized parents has a trend of growth. We noticed the differences in the structure of families from which parents come. Mothers mostly live alone with children, and fathers in a two-parent family. We find out that the predominant abusers are sons. The mental health of the perpetrators, regardless of gender, is fragile, and they are existencially dependent on their parents. Most of the parents are victimized by physical or physical and other forms of violence. The type of violence is significantly related to the sex of the abuser and the state of his mental health. Victimization is, as a rule, repeated and in a large number of cases, there is a danger of further progression of violence. Family dynamics is characterized by the absence of boundaries, rules, with parental permissiveness, and powerlessness. High dysfunctionality of family relations can be noted. In summary, the findings provide empirical confirmation of the ecosystem model assumptions.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kritički pogled na XX glavu Kaznenog Zakonika","authors":"M. Miljković","doi":"10.5937/crimen1901099m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen1901099m","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71209236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since May 2019, Serbia has joined the majority of European countries which have the sentence of life imprisonment in their criminal justice systems. Despite the refusal of the competent authorities to hold a public hearing on the issue, the introduction of life imprisonment, excluding the possibility of conditional release of convicted persons for certain offenses punishable by this sentence, was met with noticeable interest and activism by representatives of the domestic and international professional public. Particular attention in the paper is devoted to human rights standards relating to life imprisonment, mainly stemming from the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The paper analyzes the possibility of application of human rights standards within the current criminal law legislation. At the end of the paper, the author points to possible de lege ferenda directions that could represent an alternative to life imprisonment, considering it a serious challenge for protection of the dignity of convicted persons.
{"title":"(Ir)reconcilability of life imprisonment and human rights","authors":"V. Ilic","doi":"10.5937/crimen1902156i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/crimen1902156i","url":null,"abstract":"Since May 2019, Serbia has joined the majority of European countries which have the sentence of life imprisonment in their criminal justice systems. Despite the refusal of the competent authorities to hold a public hearing on the issue, the introduction of life imprisonment, excluding the possibility of conditional release of convicted persons for certain offenses punishable by this sentence, was met with noticeable interest and activism by representatives of the domestic and international professional public. Particular attention in the paper is devoted to human rights standards relating to life imprisonment, mainly stemming from the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The paper analyzes the possibility of application of human rights standards within the current criminal law legislation. At the end of the paper, the author points to possible de lege ferenda directions that could represent an alternative to life imprisonment, considering it a serious challenge for protection of the dignity of convicted persons.","PeriodicalId":33895,"journal":{"name":"Crimen Beograd","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71208914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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