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MAIN FEATURES OF LEGAL AND JUDICIAL POLITICS OF APPLICATION OF JUVENILE IMPRISONMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Vedad Gurda ; Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli


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Abstract

Considering that in the spectrum of juvenile criminal sanctions punishment of deprivation of liberty is the most severe criminal sanction, international documents related to juveniles in conflict with the law proclaim standards that this sanction has to be imposed only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest period. Issues like possible duration of subject sanction and scope of its imposition, represents some of the basic features of the legal and judicial policy of sanctioning of juveniles, and represent the subject of this paper. The author analyzes how these issues are regulated in Bosnia and Herzegovina“s and comparative law, and how aforementioned standards are applied in practice. Applying the comparative analysis it was determined that there are certain indicators that Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the countries that has in its heritage „humane“ sanctioning policy of juvenile offenderes, and that the aforementioned international standards are consistently accepted in domestic law as well as in the jurisprudence.

Keywords

juvenile offenderes; duration of juvenile imprisonment; the juvenile sentencing policy

Hrčak ID:

154313

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154313

Publication date:

30.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: bosnian

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