Implementation of the System of Alternative Criminal Sanctions
Implementation of the System of Alternative Criminal Sanctions

Summary/Abstract: The increase in crime rates in many countries, resulted in a drastic increase in the number of prisoners. However imprisonment produced negative consequences for the perpetrators and for society, which led to the fact that in the second half of the twentieth century there comes reviewing of existing prison sentences and finding of adequate solutions to punish offenders. Alternative criminal sanctions have proven to be a necessity, whereby their range is limited and in view of their versatility and its validity they can be evaluated differently. The system of criminal sanctions of the Republic of Serbia also has been enriched with alternative sanctions which gives greater opportunity for individualization in determining the criminal sanctions to prisoners, especially avoiding imposition of short-term prison sentences that have, in practice, proved inadequate. In addition, the introduction of alternative sanctions is a result of the adoption of a number of international legal acts which aim to mitigate or reduce the retributive character of punishment. In relation to penalties, alternative measures have a number of advantages that can be reduced to human nature, a lower degree of repression, as well as the participation of the community in the execution of these measures in order to achieve social reintegration.

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