JUVENILE CRIMINAL SANCTIONS UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA WITH ANALYSIS OF COURT PRACTICE Cover Image

МАЛОЛЕТНИЧКЕ КРИВИЧНЕ САНКЦИЈЕ У ПРАВУ РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ СА АНАЛИЗОМ СУДСКЕ ПРАКСЕ
JUVENILE CRIMINAL SANCTIONS UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA WITH ANALYSIS OF COURT PRACTICE

Author(s): Jovana Kostić
Subject(s): Sociology, Criminology, Penology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: minors; suppression of juvenile crime; adequate response measures; criminal sanctions;

Summary/Abstract: Criminality of minors, both in the Republic of Serbia and in other countries of the world, represents an extremely large social and social problem. First of all, taking into account the delinquent aspects of behavior and the modest intellectual potential of minors, the conclusion is reached that a large number of criminal acts are committed precisely by persons who are so specific in all their psychological, sociological and biological characteristics that the method and principles of deterring these persons from repeating socially unacceptable behaviors represent a real challenge in society's fight against illegal behaviors. On the one hand, there is the need for the state to protect its social order from the point of view of the national criminal legislation and achieve the goal and purpose of the adopted laws and suppress behavior that it considers socially unacceptable. On the other hand, adequate sanctioning of crime can be viewed from a sociological point of view, where adequate treatment of minors, their re-education and presentation of the consequences of their actions enables their better adaptation in society and easier re-socialization in accordance with socially acceptable norms. Therefore, all national criminal legislation had the same overriding goal - which is to suppress and sanction socially unacceptable behavior in the form of criminal acts committed by minors, as well as to influence their education, correction and re-education as adequately as possible with the provided sanctions. that is, resocialization into social life. In this regard, viewed historically through the development of the branch of juvenile criminal law, with the raising of society's awareness and the involvement of numerous social services, psychologists and persons who were specifically engaged in the study of the development of juveniles, a system of juvenile criminal sanctions was developed that expresses its role more and more expediently, a special system of juvenile criminal justice authorities, and a special criminal procedure against juvenile perpetrators of criminal offenses with the great support and participation of other state authorities (centers for social work, counseling centers for children and minors, etc.).

  • Issue Year: VIII/2023
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 238-244
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Serbian
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