Повратништво у европским пенолошким системима
Recidivism in European penalty systems

Summary/Abstract: At the global level, and even at the EU level, there is a very negative trend of increased recidivism and re-commission of criminal acts by the same perpetrators. It is mainly about similar criminal acts, which speaks of the existence of a special criminal return in which the perpetrators of criminal acts specialise in the execution of the same and similar criminal acts. The practice mentioned indicates that these are persons who find their profession and the source of their personal existence in the execution of criminal acts. With such perpetrators of criminal acts, no penological measure gives results; the effects of resocialization are generally absent or quite minor. Therefore, according to the author’s research, special attention should be paid to the introduction of new penological methods, the construction of a new approach to convicts, and the creation of new mechanisms for the resocialization of convicts. The starting point must be the personality of the convict, his characteristics and traits, but also his character. To get a better result and a lower number of returnees in reality, penological approaches should only be used when we understand what kind of person the offender is. Through a comparative analysis of the situation in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia, as an EU member state, the author points to the existing practice and possible penal alternatives.

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