MINORS AS PERPETRATORS OF PROPERTY CRIMINAL OFFENSES Cover Image

MALOLETNICI KAO UČINIOCI IMOVINSKIH KRIVIČNIH DELA
MINORS AS PERPETRATORS OF PROPERTY CRIMINAL OFFENSES

Author(s): Gordana Nikolić
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Criminology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: property; minors; Criminal Code; criminal acts; criminal liability;

Summary/Abstract: Property crimes are the most represented, the most extensive and the most numerous in relation to the total crimes in terms of execution, and therefore attract the professional and theoretical public with the aim of their analysis and the establishment of more valid prevention and repression solutions. These crimes are old, archaic and classic crimes, and are classified in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia in Chapter 21 in a special part of the Criminal Code. In addition to the adult perpetrators of these crimes, practice has unfortunately recorded a large number of juvenile perpetrators who commit these crimes both independently and as direct perpetrators of adult perpetrators due to a weaker penal policy. Property crimes are committed with the intention of obtaining illegal property use, so in this regard, the main goal of committing these crimes by minors is a quick, easier and simpler way to get money, movable or immovable property. In the paper, the author looks at the criminal law and criminological aspect of property crimes, as well as the general characteristics of juvenile offenders, while the focus of the work refers to the statistical analysis of the number of reported, accused and convicted juveniles for committed property crimes, as well as the structure, dynamics and the representation of these acts in relation to the total acts committed by minors in a period of ten years, on the basis of which conclusions are drawn with the aim of reducing the commission of these acts by foreign minors.

  • Issue Year: VII/2022
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 643-653
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian