Review article
On Organized Crime in General with Special Reference to the Criminal-Justice and Penological Aspects
Vesna SKORUPAN
; Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb
Abstract
ln this paper organized crime is defined and its features
discussed. The author stresses the reasons why it is one of
the most significant problems of developed countries today,
but also of transitional countries. The criminal-justice aspect
is discussed in addition to a presentation of existing criminal
and criminal-proceedings institutes for fighting organized crime, as well as the problems and capacities of the penal
system in the fight against organized crime with regard to
the type of sanctions, conditions for defining them and
difficulties observed in the employment of specific measures
(criminal sanctions) against this group of perpetrators. Within
this issue the authors also refer to foreign legislative
solutions. Furthermore, they discuss the activities of the
international community (bodies and documents) aimed at
fighting organized crime, as well as the bodies and more
important regulations of the Republic of Croatia necessary
for suppressing organized crime. Having in mind that
organized crime is a complex (problems with defining it) and
universal phenomenon, the analytical priorities have to be
sought out in the direction of a better understanding of its
structure (the important taxonomy of organized crime, which
inciines towards linking the specific forms of organized crime
with the specific sources of its emergence) and dynamics
(registering the expansion, that is the constriction of specific
forms of organized crime, which should serve as a
verification of the presumed sources of its emergence). It is
essential to continually question the quality and true reach of
the measures in the fight against organized crime and also
the efficacity of the penal system, because an insufficient
number of adequate multidisciplinary research strategies
could lead to a merely fragmentary understanding of factors
important for its prediction and prophylaxis.
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Hrčak ID:
31576
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2000.
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