Policija i sigurnost, Vol. 20 No. 1, 2011.
Stručni rad
Probation and the Alternatives to Prison Sentence in the Republic of Croatia
Lana Milivojević
; Policijska akademija, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Roman Tomašković
; Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske
Sažetak
Besides the introductional annotations associated with penal system in general and the present experi-ence with prison punishing which led to the reconsideration of the purpose of that punishment (recidi-vism, crowded jails, penal populism ect.), in this paper will be presented one of the solutions of an out institutional way of punishing as a one of the alternatives to the prison punishment and also as a one of the possible resolution of the problems that are noticed. The paper is about probation as a novelty in Croatian legislature and also about the Probation Act, which was put into the force in December 2009. Also, in the paper authors will define the meaning of the term probation and they will refer on the international grounds which are regulating the probation. After that the main subject of interest will be the regulations of the Probation Act and the Croatian system of the probation in general. The probation institute in Croatia will fully take hold up to1th January 2012 and until then it is necessary to adopt several bylaws.
Ključne riječi
penal system; penal sanctions; alternatives to prison; probation
Hrčak ID:
79211
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.6.2011.
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