ВЕРБАЛНИ ДЕЛИКТ У ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКОМ ДРУШТВУ 1918-1929
VERBAL OFFENCES IN THE YUGOSLAV SOCIETY, 1918-1929

Summary/Abstract: Verbal offences in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were a widespread, though not even, form of resistance to state authorities. Territorially speaking, it was widespread in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vojvodina, Dalmatia and Croatia. Obscene verbal attacks on state symbols, political officials, the ruling family, even on King Petar 1st and Alexandar, were part of the tense political every-day life, in spite of proclaimed prison sentences for the offence perpetrators. The enemies of the new state and ruling parties’ political opponents did not hesitate to express their disagreement on political conditions in so uncivil way that the country was forced to protect its authority by this kind of restriction of freedom of speech. In the field of legislation that regulated criminal jurisdiction, there had been a continuity of adopted laws of the Kingdom of Serbia according to which the violators would be sentenced to prison from 1 month to 10 years, depending on the severity of the verbal offences. Not even the social groups, that did not have the right to vote, such as children and women, were excused from responsibility. The prisoners who had been imprisoned for other forms of violation and crime were also judged for verbal offences. Under the surface of violation, there was prominent political sexuality in the form of fictitious rape and ferocious verbal mistreatment of opponents in the most intimate field of living.

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