STATISTICAL INDICATORS FOR CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY IN PROCEEDS OF 
CRIME IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA Cover Image

STATISTIČKI POKAZATELJI ODUZIMANjA IMOVINE STEČENE IZVRŠENjEM KRIVIČNOG DJELA U KRIVIČNOM ZAKONODAVSTVU REPUBLIKE SRPSKE
STATISTICAL INDICATORS FOR CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY IN PROCEEDS OF CRIME IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA

Author(s): Dragana Kosić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Criminal Law, Sociology, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: criminality; criminal act; financial investigations; seize of the property gained by the criminal act;

Summary/Abstract: One of the aims of Provisions on Criminal Legislation in RS, whose fulfillment has become more and more important, is the principle that nobody can keep the property acquired by criminal act. The application of the standards and regulations of seizure of property benefits and property is necessary for an adequate repressive, as well as preventive opposing to contemporary forms of criminal acts.The main cause of origin, development and maintenance of the most difficult forms of criminality is the acquisition of property benefits and the property. A person who has acquired a property by criminal act, the property is seized and the potential perpetrator shall be informed that they are not allowed to keep the property gained by perpetration of a crime. Also, the effectiveness of financial investigations and confiscation of illegally acquired property is also reflected in the fact they enable the re-establishment of a violated legal order. In the Republic of Srpska, the entry into force of the Law on Confiscation of Property gained by the criminal act in 2010, created a legal framework for effective carrying out of financial investigations. Since the moment of application of the Law on Confiscation of Illegally Acquired Property, since October 2010, significant results have been achieved in confiscation of property acquired illegally by criminal act, which will be discussed in this paper. The basic objective of this paper is determination of appropriateness and effectiveness of regulation’s application of confiscation of property gained by the criminal act in criminal procedure of the Republic of Srpska, in practice. The basic method that will be used in the theoretical part of the paper is a dogmatic and normative method, while in the second part of the paper the statistical method will be used.

  • Issue Year: III/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 509-519
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian