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Нова сексуална кривична дела и стандарди садржани у Истанбулској конвенцији
New sexual crimes and standards contained in the Istanbul Convention

Author(s): Dragan Jovašević
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: European standards;Republic of Serbia;law;sexual criminal offence;responsibility;penalty;court

Summary/Abstract: The Republic of Serbia has prescribed new sexual criminal offence by adopting the new criminal regulation in 2005 and its updates in 2009 and 2016. This new criminal regulation is based on international standards which are a part of numerous documents of universal and regional international organisations (Council of Europe, European Union, etc.). In this way, the Republic of Serbia is providing criminal responsibility and punishing ability for the most severe forms of sexual criminal offences. The paper concentrated on analyses of the international and regional European standards of system measures against sexual criminal offences. Also, the paper deals with theoretical and practical aspects of implementation measures in the criminal legislation of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 9-28
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian