Систем извршења казне затвора у Републици Српској
System of Execution of Sentence of Imprisonment in the Republic of Srpska

Summary/Abstract: Sentence of imprisonment is the most significant kind of criminal sanctions prescribed under the criminal legislation of the Republic of Srpska. It is rendered for the vast number of criminal offences, indivi-dually, alternatively or cumulatively with fine. This is understandable, sin-ce its purpose is primarily special prevention – prevention of a convict to repeat a criminal offence, by educational and correctional treatments in correctional institutions and, afterwards, a general prevention by deterring citizens from committing criminal offences. The Law on Execution of Criminal Sanctions of the Republic of Srpska gave detailed methods, pro-cedures and conditions for sending, allocating and classifying convicts in correctional institutions, as well as the procedures for executing sentence of imprisonment itself, which is the topic of this paper.

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