CRIMINAL LAW ASPECTS OF PROTECTION OF MINORS FROM DRUG ABUSE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cover Image

KAZNENOPRAVNI ASPEKTI ZAŠTITE MALOLJETNIH LICA OD ZLOUPOTREBE OPOJNIH DROGA U U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
CRIMINAL LAW ASPECTS OF PROTECTION OF MINORS FROM DRUG ABUSE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Suad Orlić, Sadmir Karović
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Substance abuse and addiction
Published by: Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: criminal law protection; misdemeanor law protection; drug abuse; minors;

Summary/Abstract: Drug abuse as a social deviation is becoming an increasingly complex problem of society which by its mass nature is a leading addiction that introduces various forms of criminal behavior. Such a phenomenon is particularly pronounced in relation to minors which are characterized by increasingly frequent use of narcotics with a tendency to reduce the age of minor users of narcotics, and a pronounced prevalence of their victimization by drug abuse meaning of their use to undertake incriminating acts in the field of abuse drug. Such imposes the actuelization of criminal law protection of minors from drug abuse with emphasis on criminal law protection and changes and amendments to criminal law regulations by prescribing new criminal law provisions that would serve to strengthen that protection. The authors referred to the elaboration of the normative, criminal law framework for the protection of minors from drug abuse, pointing out certain shortcomings in the legislative criminal law aspects of that protection and inconsistency of entity criminal law regulations related to the protection of minors from drug abuse, with the presentation of appropriate proposals de lege ferenda aimed at improving the criminal law protection of minors from drug abuse in all its forms and modalities.

  • Issue Year: 6/2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 112-149
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: Bosnian