Prosecutorial Concept of Investigation as one of the Symbols of Modern Criminal Process Legislation in the Former Yugoslavia and in Serbia Cover Image

Tužilački koncept istrage kao jedno od obeležja savremenog krivičnog procesnog zakonodavstva u zemljama bivše SFRJ i u Srbiji
Prosecutorial Concept of Investigation as one of the Symbols of Modern Criminal Process Legislation in the Former Yugoslavia and in Serbia

Author(s): Stanko Bejatović
Subject(s): Criminal Law
Published by: Institut za uporedno pravo
Keywords: criminal proceeding; investigation; the concept of the investigation; the public prosecutor; the defendant; the police; the judge for an investigation; the damaged; the suspect
Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper addressed the problems of the concept of prosecutorial investigation through four sets of issues and concluding remarks. The first group of issues is devoted to general remarks about the investigation, its systems and the importance of criminal procedure in general and in the same position was confirmed by the investigation as unavoidable stage of criminal proceedings in cases of possibly complex crimes. Bearing in mind the title the author has devoted the second part of his analysis of just cause for and against the concept of prosecutorial investigations in the same set of arguments to prove his own, and not just its paragraph on the benefits of the judicial concept of prosecutorial investigations, primarily in terms of efficiency and investigation and criminal proceeding understood as a whole in its qualitative and quantitative terms. In view of this it can be concluded that this part of his work is a central part. The third group of questions is dedicated to the professional and critical analysis of the concept of prosecutorial investigation to criminal process legislation that we belong at the time has come to court on the concept of prosecutorial investigation. Seen in this context are primarily the legislations of the states from the former Yugoslavia. Furthermore, starting from the goal of writing the author in his fourth part gives his views on a desirable way of working out the normative concept of prosecutorial investigation. At the end of the concluding remarks are given in which the author is a summarized way the results obtained by the analysis of quite a number of questions of the concept of the investigation and its and its significance for criminal proceedings in general.

  • Page Range: 242-265
  • Page Count: 24
  • Publication Year: 2010
  • Language: Serbian