Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2021.58.142.1261
Gambling and criminal protection of youngsters in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Suad Orlić
Sadmir Karović
orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-0370
Abstract
Gambling as a social deviation is becomig an increrasingly topical issue in today!s world of consumerism and disturbed social values. As a social deviation, its mass threatens to grow into a leading addiction which would lead to various forms of punishable behavior. Such a threat is specially pronounced for the younger generation who can easily become addicted to this deviation and consequently be exposed to various forms of criminal behavior. In this paper, authors elaborated the criminal law protection of young people from gambling with a complete interpretation of all its forms and pointed our certainshortcomings in the legislative aspects of this protectionand the inconsistency of our legislation related to this form of anti-social behavior of young people, as well as problem in the effectiveness of the implementation of legal provisions that treat the protection of young people from gambling, with the presentation of appropriate proposals de lege ferenda aimed at improving the criminal law protection of young people in all its forms and modalities.
Keywords
criminal law protection; misdemeanor law protection; gambling; addiction
Hrčak ID:
265084
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Publication date:
27.10.2021.
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