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Criminal act of violation of equality: Scope and specificity
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The basic principles underlying every democratic society are the rule of law, respect for human rights and freedom and equality of all citizens. Discrimination is a direct violation of these principles. Protection against discrimination requires an effective social reaction which involves taking appropriate measures in the first place of a preventive, and then repressive character. In the system of repressive measures, the criminal justice measures occupy a significant place. Their application must enable the sanction not only of violence, due to racial, ethnic, religious or other diversity, but also the incitement to such behavior. This requires monitoring of international standards in this area and their implementation in domestic legislation. The numerous changes and amendments of the Criminal Code also intervened in the sphere of personal rights and freedoms of man and citizen, in addition to the existing ones, as well as the introduction of new incriminations that protect these rights. The legal description of the criminal offense of violation of equality represents a specific definition of discrimination and the basis from which other crimes that violate the rights and freedoms of man were defined. This criminal offense provides the most complete criminal justice protection of human rights.
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Criminal analysis of the offense – abuse in the privatization process
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Compatibility with the standards of the European Union in terms of the criminal law regulation of all offenses that disrupt economic flows and values in a country, greatly affects, among the other things, the stability of economy as a basic social activity. The consequences of all individual criminal acts can have a very strong impact on certain aspects of economic relations. Comprehensive criminal regulation does a lot in the field of economic stability. Bearing in mind the topic of this paper, after a brief theoretical overview of the concept of privatization, the paper provides a criminological overview of the causes and forms of criminal behavior in the privatization process, as well as a criminal law analysis of the criminal act of Abuse in the privatization process. Abuse in the privatization process is a criminal offense regulated by the Article 228a of the Criminal Code of Republic of Serbia (2005), and it is classified in the twenty-second chapter entitled “Criminal offenses against economy”. The criminal act of Abuse in the privatization process belongs to criminal acts violating the rules of legal business operations.
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Undoubtedly, one of the leading movements at the global level in the past few decades was the movement for the global and intensive protection of the human environment, that is, the affirmation of the right of man to a healthy environment, as a distinct right. Bearing in mind the importance of a healthy environment and the importance of its protection, which has grown from a social need into a legal imperative, it is certainly justified to establish the environment as an independent and primary collective object of protection within the domestic criminal legislation. Taking into account the tendencies on the international and comparative level regarding the regulation of the criminal law protection of the environment, the domestic legislator dedicates an entire chapter of the Criminal Code precisely to incriminations that have the environment as an object of protection, in various forms. As the first offense provided for in Chapter 24 i.e., Criminal offenses against the environment, the legislator defines the general and most significant criminal offense from the group of criminal offenses against the environment, namely, Environmental pollution. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of this criminal offense in domestic criminal legislation, with reference to individual solutions contained in the legislation of the Republic of Croatia and pointing out their differences.
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Criminal offense of inciting national, racial, and religious hatred and intolerance
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In our region, multi-ethnicity, multi-confessionalism, and multilingualism are common phenomena, and therefore the challenges they face are not exceptions. With the emancipation and transition of countries in the region, accession to the European Union, states have brought new legislative frameworks in which they have recognized long- standing personal characteristics of their citizens, provided protection for these characteristics, and criminalized attacks based on these personal characteristics, as well as incitement of hatred and intolerance based on the same. This paper presents the criminal offense of inciting national, racial, and religious hatred and intolerance, within the framework of constitutional and particularly criminal law. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the legal framework and the provision of the offense in the legislation of the Republic of Serbia, the actions and methods of committing this criminal offense. Additionally, attention is given to the analysis of motives and reasons, as well as the consequences of committing this offense, questions of causality and possibilities of concurrence with other criminal offenses. Some important characteristics of this criminal offense are also discussed, such as: place, object, time, perpetrator, and form of guilt for the execution of the crime.
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Criminal offenses against official duty with a focus on the object of the criminal offense
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The very title of the group of criminal offenses against official duty reveals their object of protection, which is the conscientious and responsible performance of official duties. However, these criminal offenses endanger various protected values, such as citizens’ freedoms and rights, their physical and psychological integrity, their property, and others. In this context, the distinction between the object of the act and the defined object of protection for this group of criminal offenses becomes evident. This means that it is necessary to differentiate between the immediate object targeted by individual criminal offenses within this group, the socalled object of attack, and the established object of protection, which is the general value being safeguarded. The subject of this paper is the analysis of legal norms related to individual criminal offenses with a focus on distinguishing between the object of protection and the object of the act. In this regard, we will compare the elements of certain criminal offenses against official duty, primarily those in which the objects of the act differ, while the object of protection, according to their classification, remains the same. The aim of the paper is to determine whether the existing criminal offenses against official duty, with reference to the object of the criminal offense, are properly systematized within this group of criminal offenses, and to explore possible ways to address the identified shortcomings.
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Based on the data from official documents of the Republic Statistical Office and judicial institutions of the Republic of Serbia, the paper analyzes and presents the results of research related to the threat to property and real rights in the Republic of Serbia in the period from 2009 to 2019. We performed the analysis of available data in order to detect the “loss of crime” in a group of crimes aimed at protecting property. The purpose of this paper is a causal analysis of crimes against property in the entire territory of the Republic of Serbia with the aim of revealing causal relations and links between the number of reported, accused and convicted persons for these crimes, to determine the degree of loss of crime and take systemic measures to reduce that loss measure, in accordance with the standards of developed countries.
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Criminal profilers – human lie detectors
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For a long time, people have demonstrated a natural tendency to analyze and assess fellow humans as well as animals, objects, and similar entities, even in everyday scenarios. However, it is a little bit strange that criminal profiling became integrated into standard investigative practices within law enforcement not before the 1980s. Criminal profilers primarily fulfill their role by working on the resolution of intricate crimes where the identity of the perpetrator is unknown. On the other hand, they also have a suppressive impact, and to a lesser degree, a preventive influence, which is enhanced by considering the risk factors associated with the emergence of criminal behavior, as well as the study of criminal phenomenology. The techniques employed in criminal profiling aid in the timely identification of symptoms that indicate a combination of biological, social, and environmental factors, including learning and situational elements. As we navigate through the factors contributing to the development of criminal behavior, as well as the suppression and prevention of crime through the efforts of criminal profilers, we reach the significance of their role in detecting deception and the essentiality of human presence and intervention in diverse formal conversations, encompassing law enforcement, social work, and education. The aim of this paper is to systematically shed light on the factors contributing to the development of criminal behavior, to investigate the phenomenology of crime and to highlight the role of criminal profilers in the prevention and suppression of crime, as well as to analyze their role in the process of lie detection, while giving recommendations for the incorporation of profiling techniques into the body of knowledge and skills of teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, social workers, and others. The methods used in this study include a quantitative and qualitative analysis, using primary and secondary sources, as well as a comparative analysis.
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Criminology characteristics of crimes against the person
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Crimes against life and limb are crimes that constitute a violation of the physical and mental integrity of a person, and are classified as crimes of violence. These criminal acts have been subjected to penalty ever since the first written regulations or codes appeared with the aim to preserve and protect life and body as the most important human and social values. Having in mind the consequences of committing crimes against life and limb, it is clear that the primary task of every state is to work towards their suppression. The precondition for the realization of this task is reflected in the exploration of their criminological characteristics in order to create effective prevention measures through the understanding of the causes of this phenomenon and a comprehensive approach.
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The study deals with the importance of harmonization processes related to the succession rules in the European Union. During the examination of the harmonization processes, a particular attention has been paid to migration, which nowadays has a deep impact on inheritance cases. In this regard the study demonstrates how the judicial cooperation is being realized in the European Union when it comes to succession-related issues. Among these, the study examines the current norms of the Serbian Act on private international law, which, from some aspects, has an obsolete system considering the conflict of laws rules in matters of succession with an international element. Namely, these rules are not harmonized with those of the European Succession Regulation, which means that the Serbian IPL system does not currently follow the European trends in legislation. Furthermore, it does not take into consideration certain current phenomena, especially the international migration and globalization. At the same time, Serbia is working hard to achieve a certain level of legal harmonization with the EU legislation. One proof of the harmonization attempts is the draft of the new PIL act of Serbia. The new concept of the conflict of laws rules and the new systemic approach of connecting factors is nearly completely identical with that of European legislative trends, especially regarding the scope of succession. If the draft act comes into force, it will mean, beyond any doubt, a giant leap for the country towards the European Union.
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Current problems of trademark exhaustion in foreign court practice
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The author analyzes the principle of trademark exhaustion in the European Union. The institution of trademark exhaustion is a form of legal limitation of the subjective right of the trademark owner. EU member states have a national trademark protection system. On the other hand, a supranational trademark protection system was established in the EU, through which, among other things, there was introduced a system of regional trademark exhaustion. In the paper, the Institute of trademark exhaustion will be analyzed through the latest practice of the EU Court of Justice. Namely, when the owner of the trademark or a third party, with his consent, puts the goods marked with the trademark on the market in the European Economic Area, the exhaustion of the trademark occurs. This means that the owner of the trademark cannot prevent the further circulation of these goods. However, it often happens that the goods are purchased in one country, where the goods were first sold by the trademark owner, and then being sold in another country. According to the significant differences in the prices of medical and pharmaceutical products in different EU countries, there is a significant market for the so-called parallel import of such goods. Recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified how the provisions relating to the packaging and repackaging of medicinal products should be interpreted and applied in the context of parallel trade in pharmaceutical products within the EU.
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Cyber security of a critical infrastructure
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A critical infrastructure consists of basic assets and facilities whose functioning has a significant impact on the society and economy of a country, as well as on its security. The life and work of the citizens of a country are largely dependent on a smooth operation of various energy, telecommunication, water and sewage facilities, as well as the network of hospitals and health institutions, transportation, etc. The safe functioning of these systems is a prerequisite for the existence and development of a social community in an area. Therefore, it is necessary to undertake all necessary activities to preserve a critical infrastructure both in reality and cyberspace. With the development of the Internet, there has been a transformation of people’s work and life in the broadest sense, in such a way that it has become an indispensable part of everyday life of each of us. Together with the largest global network increasingly used as well as the various services people necessarily being relied on in the new reality the world encountered during the COVID-10 pandemic, there has been created a vast space attracting the malicious users. They act by using the known mechanisms of functioning communication networks and other information technologies, finding the system vulnerabilities and exploit them. In this paper, we will analyze the cyber security of a critical infrastructure, cyber attacks on a critical infrastructure and the measures needed to be taken to mitigate the consequences of cyber attacks.
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Cyberbullying legislation: the role of cyberbullying law
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Faced with the increasing number of cases of cyberbullying and its consequences, states are trying to find the best way of its sanctioning. The latest tragic event, in which a young man from Republika Srpska committed suicide because he was mocked on one of the social networks, has triggered a public debate on whether cyberbullying is adequately sanctioned in our country. Based on the way individual countries sanction cyberbullying, we can divide them into two groups. The first group includes those countries that sanction cyberbullying through the application of one of the existing criminal offenses (insult, defamation, persecution, unauthorised filming, hate speech). The second one refers to those countries where cyberbullying has been treated as a special criminal offense. The aim of this paper is to make suggestions for possible changes, based on an analysis of the existing legislation on cyberbullying in our country as well as in some European countries, in order to protect the victims of cyberbullying more effectively. In the paper, the authors have used a normative-legal method for the analysis of legal regulations including a comparative method for a comparative presentation of a legal regulation of cyberbullying in other countries. On the grounds of the analysis conducted, there is a conclusion that a legal protection against digital violence in our country does not provide adequate remedies for the victims of cyberbullying.
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Cybercrime and law – managing challenges and prospects in the digital age
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Cybercrime has emerged as a global threat in the digital age, posing significant challenges to legal systems worldwide, particularly in terms of their effectiveness and applicability. This paper examines how these challenges are addressed within international and national legal frameworks, highlighting key obstacles and offering perspectives for improvement. It reviews existing legal mechanisms, such as the Budapest Convention, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and national legislation in Serbia, and evaluates their adaptability to contemporary technological threats and potential for reform. The research adopts an interdisciplinary methodology, combining theoretical analysis of international and domestic legal texts with empirical examination of statistical data and case records. Practical challenges of legal enforcement are assessed through a systematic review of relevant sources, including the number of reported cyberattacks, and insights drawn from Interpol and Europol reports. The findings highlight systemic challenges, such as jurisdictional limitations, ineffective laws, and insufficient technical capacities. Proposed solutions emphasize enhanced international cooperation, modernization of legal frameworks, investment in technology, and public education. The paper concludes that building legal resilience to cybercrime requires a coordinated international effort to address legal and technological vulnerabilities exploited by cybercriminals.
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Da li sudije stvaraju pravo ili ga samo primenjuju?
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Ovaj rad obrađuje pitanje sudskog stvaranja prava, kao jedno od retkih pitanja u pravnoj nauci koja su izazvala toliko interesovanja, nesporazuma i kontraverznih mišljenja. U pravnoj teoriji postoje oprečna shvatanja o mogućnosti stvaranja prava sudskim presudama, koji pored mnogobrojnih razlika imaju i zajedničke dodirne tačke. Mi smo prilikom postavljanja cilja ovog istraživanja ostali skromni i zadržali se u onoj problematici koja ne prevazilazi domen nauke, pa smo i postavljenom cilju prilagodili strukturu rada, u kojem smo analizirali sudsku presudu kao izvor prava, poredili sudsku presudu sa formalnim izvorom prava, odnosno zakonom, i bavili se ujednačavanjem sudske prakse u pravosudnom sistemu Republike Srbije.
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Decentralizacija, regionalizacija i oblici organizovanja policije
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The paper first elaborates basic theoretical and practical political and legal factors which determine the position of the police; it then explains the role of police within the corrective state apparatus. At the same time terms of ’centralism’ and ’decentralization’, as principles of organizing government agencies, as well as police and security services, are being discussed from the point of view of their territorial division; organization and the status of security in the past two decades of the development of the Republic of Serbia are also presented. Experiences in the field of police organization and operation are being analyzed in context of police reform and prevailing theories on incorporating the police into a local community.
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Deliktna odgovornost pravnih lica
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Istorija delikata je poznavala fizička lica kao jedine subjekte koji su, svojim konkretnim postupcima, činili različite vrste pravno-nedozvoljenih ponašanja. Kazniti se mogao čovek koji je preduzimanjem ili propuštanjem radnje proizvodio zabranjenu posledicu. Međutim, razvoj industrijalizacije i ekspanzija privrednih aktivnosti dovela je do osnivanja pravnih lica, odnosno privrednih subjekata. Oni su stupali u različite vrste pravnih odnosa u čijoj osnovi je bila želja za sticanjem profita. U tom kontekstu dolazi do pojave prvih oblika pravno-nedozvoljenih delatnosti pravnih lica koje se odvijaju u finansijskoj sferi. Krajnja posledica protivpravnih postupaka pravnih lica sastojala se u nanošenju enormno velike štete koja je prevazilazila onu koju su mogli učiniti ljudi kao subjekti deliktne odgovornosti. S obzirom da je pravoverni pratilac društvenih zbivanja prirodno je da se pravnim uređenjem delatnosti pravnih lica nastojalo odgovoriti njihovim pravno-nedozvoljenim ponašanjima. Otuda deliktnu odgovornost pravnih lica možemo podeliti na: prekršajnu, privredno-prestupnu i krivičnu. U Srbiji je prethodne decenije premijerno uvedena krivična odgovornost pravnih lica čime je naša država svrstana u red pravno uređenih evropskih zemalja. Međutim, time nije isključena njihova odgovornost za prekršaje i privredne prestupe kao posebne oblike deliktne odgovornosti. Polazeći od navedenog, autor želi ukazati na osnovne elemente sva tri oblika deliktne odgovornosti pravnih lica u našem pravnom sistemu. Redosled izlaganja biće usklađen sa momentom njihovog uvođenja u naše pozitivno pravo. Zato će najpre biti reči o prekršajnoj, a zatim o privredno-prestupnoj i krivičnoj odgovornosti pravnih lica.
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Democratization of property relations
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The process of democratization of property relations has affected, first of all, the European area, and then the other parts of the world. Having been established with a clear economic and social content, without the ideological burden, the employees shareholding and participation have the conditions to expand, strengthen their power and become one of the important factors in the structure of the modern society. In our area, the process of the transformation of social ownership began with the employees shareholding. Company employees were given the right to buy internal shares under privileged conditions. That was the main form of transformation. There was trust in the company to initiate, organize and manage the process of transformation in its own interest. The funds obtained through the issuance of shares, selling a part of the company or the whole company, according to the express provisions of the law, belong to the company or its complex form. Later, already during 90s, ideological properties were unjustifiably attributed to the employees shareholding and participation, which led to their complete exclusion from the economic and legal system. By subsequent regulations, privatization was almost exclusively reduced to selling, thus excluding all other possible different forms of privatization. This approach lost the sight of the basic economic objectives of privatization: there was no acquiring of new capital or new investment cycle; there were neither new business entities capable of receiving and fertilizing the capital emerged, nor the privatization represented an incentive for dynamic development of economy and employment. Economic enterprises were extinguished, and unemployment increased. And now, in a much less favorable economic and social climate, it is reasonable to raise the issue of whether there are still conditions to engage the inner forces that would take upon themselves the responsibility for getting out of the crisis, by introducing the employees shareholding and privatization. A prerequisite for this is certainly the creation of a legal framework for the establishment and development of the employees shareholding and participation. This would simultaneously bring us closer to the legal system of the European Union and its member states, in which the employees shareholding and participation are widely established and legally regulated institutions.
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Deprivation of parental rights and “the best interest of the child”
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In contemporary times, children are recognized as holders of their own rights, which is a departure from past practices. The state delegates authority to participate in and intervene in family matters through designated guardianship bodies and local courts. The deprivation of parental rights carries significant and enduring consequences for both parents and children, with the entire process governed by the legal principle of the best interest of the child. Unfortunately, the “best interest of the child,” while a widely used concept, lacks precise legal definition, potentially leading to adverse effects on the child’s psychological and physical development.
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Upbringing of a child and choosing a method, consciously or unconsciously, has existed since parenting. The aim of this paper is to present the choice of a violent method in upbringing – a corporal punishment of a child, the way how it affects a child’s development and consequences it can cause. Having in mind the complex and sensitive character of the phenomenon, the topic was explored from the aspect of a legal science, but also from the point of non-legal disciplines, such as psychology, sociology of a family and pedagogy. Observations of the achivements from the point of a child`s psychology are of an exceptional importance for the analysis of the consequences that a corporal punishment has on a child. The conclusion indicates that, although the family environment is the most desirable environment for a child, the choice of violent methods in education affects the proper growth and development of children, and it can lead to both temporary and permanent consequences related to a child`s mental and physical health as well as its emotional development. There are difficulties in determining how violent parenting affects a child’s emotional and physical safety and health, unless the result is a more serious physical injury or death. Although the responsibility lies primarely with the family and the activities of the parents, in practice, the most desirable approach is a close cooperation of all adults working with children, including educators, doctors and the whole society.
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Scientific research related to the avoidance of calculation and payment of profit tax in public enterprises is very rare, due to the belief that public enterprises do not avoid paying profit tax because their owner is the state, city, or local government unit. The research conducted in this paper has shown that the largest public enterprises in Serbia, which have a high profitability rate, as well as capital-intensive enterprises, have a higher effective tax rate and do not use tax planning techniques to avoid taxes. These findings can be considered scientifically adequate. All other determinants used in this paper did not show a statistically significant impact on the effective tax rate. When deciding and implementing the profit tax rate policy, as well as tax exemptions, the state must take into account the specificities of the operations of public enterprises and assess the effects of these policies on this sector of the economy.
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