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A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation

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Đorđević, Đorđe
Bodrožić, Ivana
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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.

Keywords:
recidivism / multiple recidivism / Criminal Code / sentencing / aggra-vating circumstances
Source:
NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija : Journal of criminalistics and law = žurnal za kriminalistiku i pravo, 2020, 25, 3, 71-85
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  • Belgrade : University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies
Funding / projects:
  • Development of Institutional Capacities, Standards and Procedures for Fighting Organized Crime and Terrorism in Climate of International Integrations (RS-179045)

DOI: 10.5937/nabepo25-30459

ISSN: 2620-0406 (Online)

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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
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T1  - A new legal solution on recidivism in Serbian Criminal legislation
VL  - 25
IS  - 3
SP  - 71
EP  - 85
DO  - 10.5937/nabepo25-30459
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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 . .

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