From the adoption of the Criminal Code in 2006 until the latest amendments of 2019, the Serbian criminal legislation treated recidivism as an optional aggravating circumstance, which had its specific legal status in comparison with other mitigating and aggravating circumstances. According to the new legal solution, instead of being optional, recidivism has become a mandatory aggravating circumstance. Together with clearly specified condi-tions for harsher penalties this narrows down the possibility of free judicial decision-making when meting out punishment. The paper answers several questions: whether harsher penalties for recidivists are only the result of con-tinuous tightening of repression at a normative level, whether and to what ex-tent the criminal-law framework has been improved, and whether returning to some solutions, which were not normally applied in court practice, can be marked as approriate to achiev...e the desired degree of crime prevention. Final critical conculusion is that the new legal solution on recidivism appears regres-sive, given that the court is strictly bound by the law through oblitatory condi-tions regarding prior and persistent offending, which is in compliance with the general trend of tightening repression at the normative level and reducing the role of the court to the level of administrative application of the norm.
TY - JOUR
AU - Đorđević, Đorđe
AU - Bodrožić, Ivana
PY - 2020
UR - https://nbp.kpu.edu.rs/all-issues/#1614326566164-36487937-5a04
UR - http://jakov.kpu.edu.rs/handle/123456789/1309
AB - From the adoption of the Criminal Code in 2006 until the latest amendments of 2019, the Serbian criminal legislation treated recidivism as an optional aggravating circumstance, which had its specific legal status in comparison with other mitigating and aggravating circumstances. According to the new legal solution, instead of being optional, recidivism has become a mandatory aggravating circumstance. Together with clearly specified condi-tions for harsher penalties this narrows down the possibility of free judicial decision-making when meting out punishment. The paper answers several questions: whether harsher penalties for recidivists are only the result of con-tinuous tightening of repression at a normative level, whether and to what ex-tent the criminal-law framework has been improved, and whether returning to some solutions, which were not normally applied in court practice, can be marked as approriate to achieve the desired degree of crime prevention. Final critical conculusion is that the new legal solution on recidivism appears regres-sive, given that the court is strictly bound by the law through oblitatory condi-tions regarding prior and persistent offending, which is in compliance with the general trend of tightening repression at the normative level and reducing the role of the court to the level of administrative application of the norm.
PB - Belgrade : University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies
T2 - NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo
T1 - A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation
VL - 25
IS - 3
SP - 71
EP - 85
DO - 10.5937/nabepo25-30459
ER -
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author = "Đorđević, Đorđe and Bodrožić, Ivana",
year = "2020",
abstract = "From the adoption of the Criminal Code in 2006 until the latest amendments of 2019, the Serbian criminal legislation treated recidivism as an optional aggravating circumstance, which had its specific legal status in comparison with other mitigating and aggravating circumstances. According to the new legal solution, instead of being optional, recidivism has become a mandatory aggravating circumstance. Together with clearly specified condi-tions for harsher penalties this narrows down the possibility of free judicial decision-making when meting out punishment. The paper answers several questions: whether harsher penalties for recidivists are only the result of con-tinuous tightening of repression at a normative level, whether and to what ex-tent the criminal-law framework has been improved, and whether returning to some solutions, which were not normally applied in court practice, can be marked as approriate to achieve the desired degree of crime prevention. Final critical conculusion is that the new legal solution on recidivism appears regres-sive, given that the court is strictly bound by the law through oblitatory condi-tions regarding prior and persistent offending, which is in compliance with the general trend of tightening repression at the normative level and reducing the role of the court to the level of administrative application of the norm.",
publisher = "Belgrade : University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies",
journal = "NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo",
title = "A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation",
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "71-85",
doi = "10.5937/nabepo25-30459"
}
Đorđević, Đ.,& Bodrožić, I.. (2020). A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation. in NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo
Belgrade : University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies., 25(3), 71-85.
https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo25-30459
Đorđević Đ, Bodrožić I. A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation. in NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo. 2020;25(3):71-85.
doi:10.5937/nabepo25-30459 .
Đorđević, Đorđe, Bodrožić, Ivana, "A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation" in NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo, 25, no. 3 (2020):71-85,
https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo25-30459 . .
