Organized crime a challenge to criminal legislation

Abstract

Organized crime is a complex and in many aspects specific crime phenomenon representing a great danger to the legal system and democratic institutions of the state, but also to the international community on the whole. In fighting organized crime there are many difficulties and it is enough to emphasize that its conceptual definition represents an extremely complex activity and that is why there is no general consensus on what does the organized crime mean neither in the theory nor in the practice. Criminal legislation has a special mission to find the adequate strategy against organized crime which, because of its specific characteristics and subjects, often calls into question some traditional criminal law practices. Therefore, organized crime represents today, at the very beginning of the XXI century, and along with international terrorism, the greatest challenge to the criminal legislation considering the fact that, because of its etiology and especially phenomenological characteristics, organized crime complicates its reaction against this crime phenomenon that is often faced with the problem concerning the use and protection of basic rights of citizens.

Organizovani kriminalitet je kompleksan i po mnogo čemu specifičan kriminalni fenomen, koji predstavlja veliku opasnost po pravni poredak i demokratske institucije jedne zemlje, ali i međunarodnu zajednicu u celini. U njegovom suprotstavljanju postoje brojne teškoće, a dovoljno je istaći i da samo pojmovno određenje predstavlja izuzetno složenu delatnost, zbog čega kako u teoriji, tako i u zakonodavstvu, ne postoji opšti konsenzus, šta se podrazumeva pod organizovanim kriminalitetom. Krivično zakonodavstvo ima poseban zadatak da iznađe adekvatnu strategiju namenjenu njegovom suzbijanju, koja zbog svojih specifičnosti i sadržine često dovodi u pitanje neke tradicionalne institute krivičnog prava, kako materijalnog tako i procesnog. Zato organizovani kriminalitet danas, na samom početku XXI veka, zajedno sa međunarodnim terorizmom predstavlja najveći izazov krivičnom zakonodavstvu, s obzirom da zbog svojih etioloških, a pre svega fenomenoloških karakteristika, usložnjava njegovu reakciju na ovaj kriminalni fenomen, koja se neretko sučeljava i sa pitanjem ostvarivanja i zaštite osnovnih sloboda i prava građana.