ПОЛОЖАЈ МАЛОЛЕТНИКА У КРИВИЧНОМ ПРАВУ ПРЕМА НОВИМ ЗАКОНСКИМ РЕШЕЊИМА
POSITION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS UNDER THE NEW CRIMINAL LEGISLATION

Summary/Abstract: The new substantive and enforcement criminal legislation in the Republic of Serbia entered into force on 1st January 2006, including the Criminal Code, the Act on Juvenile Criminal Offenders and Criminal Law Protection of Minors, and the Criminal Sanctions Enforcement Act. Thus, for the first time in 145 years and after three decades of having the legislative authority divided among the federal government, the republics and autonomous provinces, Serbia adopted a uniform standardized criminal code. The new legal solutions lay down considerably different grounds regarding the concept of criminal law protection and the status of minors. Namely, a separate act - the Act on Juvenile Criminal Offenders and Criminal Law Protection of Minors (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 85/2005 of 6th October 2005) provides a unique comprehensive overview of all the substantive, procedural and enforcement provisions pertaining to juvenile offenders, including the system of criminal sanctions for minors, special bodies, as well as the proceedings for rendering and enforcement of these sanctions. In this paper, the author will therefore discuss numerous new developments and innovative solutions envisaged in the new legislation regarding the legal status of minors in criminal law.

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