ON ORGANIZED CRIME IN GENERAL WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CRIMINAL-JUSTICE AND PENOLOGICAL ASPECTS Cover Image

OPĆENITO O ORGANIZIRANOM KRIMINALU, S POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA KAZNENOPRAVNI I PENOLOŠKI ASPEKT
ON ORGANIZED CRIME IN GENERAL WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CRIMINAL-JUSTICE AND PENOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Author(s): Vesna Skorupan Wolff
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Criminology, Penology
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Organized crime; Penology; Criminal justice;

Summary/Abstract: ln this paper organized crime is defined and its features discussed. The author stresses the reasons why it is one of the most significant problems of developed countries today, but also of transitional countries. The criminal-justice aspect is discussed in addition to a presentation of existing criminal and criminal-proceedings institutes for fighting organized crime, as well as the problems and capacities of the penal system in the fight against organized crime with regard to the type of sanctions, conditions for defining them and difficulties observed in the employment of specific measures (criminal sanctions) against this group of perpetrators. Within this issue the authors also refer to foreign legislative solutions. Furthermore, they discuss the activities of the international community (bodies and documents) aimed at fighting organized crime, as well as the bodies and more important regulations of the Republic of Croatia necessary for suppressing organized crime.

  • Issue Year: 9/2000
  • Issue No: 48+49
  • Page Range: 687-727
  • Page Count: 41
  • Language: Croatian