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Criminal Offence of Illegal Games in Croatia: Chain Games - Games without Borders
Lucija Sokanović
orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-7789
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper deals with the criminal offence of chain games. In the modern Croatian criminal legislation chain games are regulated within the offence of illegal games of chance and even deprived of the own legal name. The paper first explores the concept of games of chance and the criminal offence of illegal games of chance. After that the forms of the chain games and the regulation of the criminal offence in Austria and Germany is analyzed. The detailed analysis of the offence in the provisions of Art. 237 para. 2 and 3 indicates a serious failure of the legislator in the last novel of the Criminal Code. Selected examples in the last part of the paper point to the great danger for society because many victims of this crime in the age of neo-liberalism cannot be simply characterized as "greedy and credulous". The paper analyzes the concurrence of chain games with misleading advertising, fraud, fraud in business operations and abuse of trust. The prejudices that only the poor and under-educated get harmed , exemplified in its most extreme form by the case of Albania where almost the entire population was involved in some form of pyramid fraud, have been disproved by the Slatkin and Madoff cases. The claim that these offences are immanent to the casino capitalism or neo-liberalism is accurate, although the experience from the past (from the Ponzi) indicates that they are a constant phenomenon in the history of mankind.
Ključne riječi
fraud; chain game; pyramidal fraud; illegal games of chance; benefit
Hrčak ID:
152405
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.6.2015.
Posjeta: 3.251 *