Some Reflections on the Delicts of the First Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania
Some Reflections on the Delicts of the First Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania

Summary/Abstract: The Criminal Code of 1928 or Zog’s Criminal Code has been initially published in 1929, about two years after the decree of June the 3d, 1927. The Code entered into force on January 1, 1928, together with the relevant appendixes. With the adoption of the Code, the Albanian state had thus as the main source of the criminal justice its own criminal law, replacing thus once and for all the Turkish Criminal Code of 1858. This was the first Criminal Code of the period of post–independence of Albania. In this paper work will be taken into analysis the 1928 Code and the way offences were qualified, including: offenses against the state security, offenses against freedom, offenses against the public administration, offenses against the justice administration, offenses against the public order; offenses against religion; offenses against the public property, offenses against the family order and good habits, offenses against the person, offenses against the property. For weach group of these offenses, will be taken into analysis the objective and subjective side of the offences, as well as the sanctiones provided by the code. This paper aims to show that the Criminal Code of 1928 was a positive effort to bring the Western experience of the time in our country, in the legal field, which back then was still under the dictate of the Ottoman laws.

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