КРИВИЧНО ПРАВО И ЊЕГОВА ДРУШТВЕНА УЛОГА
THE SOCIAL ROLE OF CRIMINAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: The article is an introducing conference in which the author deals with: the notion and the definition of the criminal law, the notion and the definition of the criminality, the relation between the criminality and the criminal liaw, determining through this relation the role of the criminal law. Speaking of the notion and the definition of the criminal law, the author analyses the fundamental elements of the criminal law and explains the difference between the criminal law, the administration of criminal justice and criminal legislation. By displaying the notion of the criminality, the author takes specially into consideration the historico-social conditions of the beginning of the phenomenon, the conditions and the forms of its development, as well as its destructive influence on the social life. Finally, the author speaks of the role of the criminal law as the most effective expedient of the state for the struggle against the criminality. In this part the author analyses the criminal law measures, insisting specially on the retaliation and retribution measures, which have the role of a passive protection of the society, and on the resocialization measures, which have the role of an active protection of the society - whereat this second kind of measure keeps the primacy in thecriminal law.

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