ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE WESTERN BALKANS - DEFINITION AND CRIMINAL ASPECT Cover Image

ORGANIZIRANI KRIMINAL U ZEMLJAMA ZAPADNOG BALKANA – POJAM I KRIVIČNOPRAVNI ASPEKT
ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE WESTERN BALKANS - DEFINITION AND CRIMINAL ASPECT

Author(s): Emir Kajmaković, Sadmir Karović
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Criminology
Published by: Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Latar Vrkatić
Keywords: Organized Crime; the opposition; the laws; criminal aspect; crime aspect;

Summary/Abstract: Organized crime is one of the most dangerous and most complex phenomena in the world today in general. Because each state can endanger the two sides, the threat of organized crime and of their inability to provide an effective legal framework for neutralizing consequences of this problem. In seeking an investigation of the most appropriate response to the challenge of organized crime, there have been fundamental changes in the orientation of the criminal justice system, both at the national and at the international level. The area of organized crime in the last few years as a contemporary phenomenon aroused great interest in criminological research, criminal justice, and crime criminal-process theory of almost all countries of the modern world. Some Western Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia) belong to the state in which the fight against organized crime at the very beginning, and it can be assumed that in the framework of the existing system as well as the introduction of new legislation, to increase the efficiency of organs prosecution and the judiciary in dealing with the same consequences as well as the causes of organized crime. Given the fact that organized crime presents a real problem that requires timely and adequate response of the state to suppress it, the paper will analyzes the phenomenon, as well as criminal aspect to combat organized crime.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 42-55
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian