scholarly journals Legal protection of victims under criminal law in the Republic of Macedonia

Temida ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Bacanovic

The author tried to outline the status of crime victims in Macedonian criminal and juvenile legislation by analyzing three legal texts referring to legal protection of victims under criminal law in the Republic of Macedonia (the Criminal Code, the Law on Criminal Procedure Act and the Law on Juvenile Justice). The basic questions which have been analyzed from the criminal substantial aspect include: the rights and interests of the victims as a consistent part of contemporary criminal policy and Criminal Code reforms, the elements of diversion model based on concept of restorative justice in criminal legislation and victimology aspects of some significant novelties in the special part of criminal law. In this article two dimensions dealing with a change of status of damaged person in criminal procedure of the Republic of Macedonia have been analyzed, while taking into consideration new trends and comparative experiences in this field. One dimension is the role of the damaged person and incorporation of elements of restorative justice in the criminal procedure, while the other dimension includes help and support of the victims and prevention of their secondary victimization. While analyzing suitable provisions of the Law on Juvenile Justice, the author focuses on its solutions that deserve more attention because of its innovations. The consequent realization of the concept on which this law is based on, and in which the victim, at the same time, has a significant role is another confirmation of the rule that the changes of juvenile legislation creates good basis for future reforms of criminal legislation regarding the adult offenders.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Adi Sujarwo ◽  
Endeh Suhartini ◽  
Ju Naidi

Delinquency problem is the actual problem, in almost all the countries in the world, including Indonesia . Attention to this issue has a lot of thought poured out, either in the form of discussions and seminars which have been held by organizations or government agencies that close relationship with this problem. In a legal perspective, the problem of theft is a criminal act (delict) plaguing the society , in Article 362 Code of Criminal Law of the theft said, " Whoever took the goods wholly or partially belongs to another person , with intent to have unlawful , punishable due to theft, with a maximum imprisonment of 5 ( five ) years or a fine of nine hundred dollars. However, the rules of Article 362 Book of the Law of Criminal Law of the theft and criminal application against minors regulated in Article 26 paragraph (1), 27 and 28, paragraph (1) of Act No. 3 of 1997 on Juvenile Justice , stipulates that the maximum legal threats meted out to convicted child is ½ of the maximum threat of criminal provisions will apply. This study uses a normative approach , in that the data from the literature and from the field as input and information in order to obtain an answer. The results of this research that the detention of offenders under the age of 3 was associated with the Law No. 1997 on the Juvenile Justice conducted an investigation into juvenile delinquents by the investigator children who have an interest, attention, dedication and understanding the problem child. Legal protection of the child as a criminal in the process of investigation has not been in accordance with Law No. 3 of 1997 on Juvenile Justice. Police to interrogate suspected child should distinguish processes and work systems of the investigation and adult actors. Status of child offenders under the custody process by investigators in Bogor City Police Detention by the investigator or prosecutor young child or children with the determination of the judge, in a case and in the manner provided for in the law No.11 of 2012 and the Criminal Procedure Code, determine that the suspect or the accused may be detained. Because there is the term "may" be detained, the detention of children is not always meant to do, so in this case the investigator expected to strongly consider if the detention of children. According to Article 21 paragraph (1) Criminal Code


Temida ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Dragan Jovasevic

New criminal legislation got into force in Serbia at the beginning of 2006. In that way, Serbia got unique Criminal Code which includes all provisions of material criminal law except provisions related to the criminal position of juveniles. System of criminal sanctions for juvenile off enders, procedure for their imposition and the way, procedure and terms for their execution are regulated by the provisions of the separate law - the Law on juvenile off enders and criminal protection of juveniles. Some of the most important novelties introduced by new juvenile criminal law are system of diversion, i.e. system of diversion orders, which aim at excluding the imposition of criminal sanctions in the cases when criminal sanction is not necessary from the perspective of crime suppression. Bearing that in mind, this paper is dedicated to forms of diversion orders as a form of measures that lead to more efficient system of restorative justice within our new juvenile criminal legislation. .


2021 ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
K.Y. Sasykin

In the article, the author examines the problem of criminal legal protection of creditors’ rights fromcrimes associated with malicious evasion by debtors from paying off accounts payable, for the commissionof which liability is provided under Article 177 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author emphasizes that the norm of the article was introduced in 1996 together with the adoptionof the code and the disposition did not undergo changes over the next twenty-five years, remaininginsufficiently regulated. It is indicated with reference to judicial practice on the problem of the objective sideof the corpus delicti of this crime, which contains ambiguous evaluative signs.The author, based on the analysis of the article of the considered norm and a number of doctrinal pointsof view, concluded that the norm is subject to change with the “removal” of the controversial terminologyfrom the disposition. The author proposes a revision of the norm and, as an example, provides a similarprovision on liability from the criminal legislation of the Republic of Belarus.Also, based on the analysis of articles 144–145 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federationand taking into account the practice and doctrinal points of view, attention is focused on the need, in additionto substantive changes, changes and procedural norms of domestic legislation, namely, on the need totransform the stage existing in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation initiation of a criminalcase as hindering the timely detection and investigation of this type of crime.


Japanese Law ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 450-466
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Oda

The primary statute of criminal law in Japan is the Criminal Code of 1907. There are various separate laws which provide for specific crimes, generally denoted as ‘special criminal laws’. Some offences were added by way of such special laws in the recent years including the law against terrorist acts of 2019. The The Criminal Code is divided into the General Part and the Special Part. The former lays down the general principles and basic concepts of criminal law such as intention, negligence, attempt, accomplice, etc. The latter lists specific offences. Constitution guarantees the rights of defendants and suspects. Criminal procedure has become much more transparent, and better protection is given to suspects.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (78) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Silvija Kotāne

This paper shall review of the development of environmental criminal – legal protection in the Republic of Latvia. One of the most complicated valuation terms in Criminal law is essential harm. The adverse effects of marking, used assessment concept – "essential harm" to the Criminal Law Section 11, provisions are included as a criminal offense frame sign. Valuation concept „essential harm” or “significant damage” is widely used. Material injury is one of the mandatory features of the objective of acriminal offence defining the legal classification of the offence and, inany particular case, to assess the nature and consequences of thedamage in relation to the interests laid down by the law. In all cases, regulation is not specified. Significant damage and other interests protected by law in nature and severity to determine the natural environment, human health can be an expert evaluation. In deciding the question of material injury, which is especially qualifying characteristic of the Criminal Law Article 109, followed to the Special Law Annex 1 "Criteria for the detectable threat or significant risk to the law protected the interests of the forest environment conservation." With regard to essential harm the forest environment, evaluation is embedded in the law and are applied in practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Aibar S. NURKHAN

Studying of issues regarding criminal infractions – whether intended or imprudent – plays quite a significant role. Fundamental changes taking part in world economy and politics, globalization processes, as well as internal dynamics of country development, undoubtedly, have impact on national legal framework, including criminal law. Therefore, the main goal of the present paper is the analysis of legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan regarding criminal infractions and the law enforcement practice. To reach this goal authors have used methods of comparison, analysis and data systematization. As a result it has been found that in Kazakhstan there are at average 4,3 registered criminal infractions per a convict. The term of criminal infraction has appeared in the Criminal Code in 2014 to cover offences of small gravity and administrative violations that cannot be referred to the sphere of state administration. Authors have revealed the punishment in the present day Kazakhstan is not a main form of criminal responsibility realization. In the majority of cases linked to criminal infractions the persons committed them are relieved from criminal responsibility at the stage of prejudicial inquiry.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Blerta Arifi ◽  
Besa Kadriu

In this paper the author will analyze the legal treatment of juvenile delinquency in Republic of Macedonia, in historical aspect of the development of its legislation. In this way it will be presented the place of the criminal law for juveniles in the criminal legal system of the country and its development during today. The study will be focused on the innovation of legal protection of delinquent children, especially it will be analyzed the sanctioning of juvenile perpetrators and their special treatment from the majors in Republic of Macedonia. It will be a chronological comparison reflect of the juvenile sanctioning based on some of laws in Macedonia such as: Criminal Code of Former Yugoslavia, Criminal Code of Republic of Macedonia (1996), Law on Juvenile Justice (2007) and Law on Child protection (2013). The purpose of the study is to bring out the types of criminal sanctions for juveniles in Republic of Macedonia from its independence until today which, above all, are aimed on protecting the interests of the juvenile delinquents. Also the author of this paper will attach importance to the so-called “Measures of assistance and protection” provided by the Law on Child protection of Republic of Macedonia, which represent an innovation in the country's criminal law. This study is expected to draw conclusions about how it started to become independent itself the delinquency of minors as a separate branch from criminal law in the broad sense – and how much contemporary are the sanctions to minors from 1996 until today.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
A. P. Skiba ◽  
A. V. Kovsh ◽  
A. N. Myakhanova

The types of punishments in the Republic of Korea and the Democratic peoples Republic of Korea have significant specifics in comparison with Russia and differ from each other. Their criminal law regulations are laconic in comparison with the Russian approach. Under the Criminal Code of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, there is a clear emphasis on regulating punishments involving deprivation of liberty and restriction of the rights of a convicted person, and under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Korea, punishments with economic content. The author provides a translation of the provisions of Article 27 of the Criminal Code of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and Article 41 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Korea regarding the list of types of punishments.


Author(s):  
Septa Candra

Restorative Justice adalah merupakan suatu bentuk model pendekatan baru dalam penyelesaian perkara pidana. Model pendekatan restorative justice ini sebenarnya telah digunakan dibeberapa negara dengan fokus pendekatannya kepada pelaku, korban dan masyarakat dalam proses penyelesaian kasus hukum yang terjadi diantara mereka. Walaupun model pendekatan ini masih banyak diperdebatkan dalam tataran teori oleh para ahli, namun dalam kenyataannya tetap tumbuh dan eksis serta mempengaruhi kebijakan dan praktek hukum di banyak negara. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini yaitu bagaimana mekanisme penerapan pendekatan restorative justice dalam penyelesaian kasus hukum di Indonesia dan bagaimana konsep restorative justice dapat menjadi bagian dari pembaharuan hukum pidana di masa yang akan datang. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif analitis dan bersifat kualitatif, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Indonesia dengan angka kejahatan yang relatif tinggi, patut pula untuk dipertimbangkan model restorative justice ini menjadi bagian dari pendekatan dalam penyelesaian kasus-kasus hukum yang terjadi selama ini. Dalam perkembangannya prinsip restorative justice sudah diintrodusir melalui sejumlah ketentuan dalam RUU KUHP dan diversi terhadap anak, terutama untuk memberikan keseimbangan perhatian diantara stakeholders hukum pidana (pelaku, korban, masyarakat dan negara). Tentunya, model pendekatan ini diharapkan dapat menjadi bagian dari pembaharuan hukum pidana Indonesia di masa yang akan datang guna mencapai keadilan, kepastian dan kemanfaatan sebagai tujuan dari hukum itu sendiri.<p>Restorative justice is a new approach model to solve criminal matters. Restorative justice model is an approach that has actually been used in several countries with focus its approach to offenders, victims and the community in the process of settlement of legal cases that have happened among them. Even though the model has still been widely debated in the level of theory, but in fact, it still grows and exists, also influences policy and practice of the law in many countries. Based on the reasons, the focus of this study, namely: How is a mechanism of a restorative justice approach in solving legal cases in Indonesia? How is the concept of restorative justice that can be a part of the reform of criminal law in the future? The research applies descriptive analysis study and uses qualitative method. The result of the study shows that Indonesia as a law state with criminal figures relatively high ought also to be considered that the model of restorative justice may become an approach for solving legal cases. Restorative justice principles in development have already been introduced through a number of provisions in the Criminal Code Bill and diversion of children, especially to provide a balance among stakeholders in criminal law (perpetrators, victims, community and nation). Of course, this model is expected to be a part of the Indonesian criminal law reform in the future to bring justice, certainty and expediency as the purpose of the law itself.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
A.V. Shevchuk ◽  
O. M. Bodnaruk

The article under studies relies on the understanding that the future of any state, society and mankind on the whole largely depends on the moral virtues of each individual. However, today's moral, spiritual and cultural basics are seriously challenged, annihilated and neglected. Resting on a comparative-legal analysis of the current criminal legislation of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, the article deals with the peculiarities of the criminal and legal protection of morality, identifies in the above legislations certain common and distinctive features in the context of existence and construction of legal norms, investigates their structural elements and, eventually, determines types of punishment. It has been substantiated that Ukrainian criminal legislation is rather progressive in terms of the criminal and legal protection of morality. It might be explained by the fact that respective criminal and legal prohibitions not only have been reflected in a special section of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, but are also described there in detail. In addition, these prohibitions are marked with partial, but at the same time significant and expedient changes and supplements that completely comply with the present-day challenges (for instance, in terms of liability for cruel treatment of animals, vandalizing a grave or other burial place or the body of the deceased, etc.). Particular emphasis has been laid on the fact that due to the recent changes in the Criminal Code, which came into force in March, 2021, especially striking are the elements of such crimes as access to child pornography, its acquisition, storage, import, transportation or other movement, production, sale and dissemination (Art. 301-1), and carrying out of entertaining action of sexual character with participation of the minor (Art. 301-2). On the other hand, the criminal legislation of Moldova does not contain a separate structural part, which would systematize all socially hazardous actions regarding morality. Instead, certain articles on the protection of social morality are enshrined in different chapters of a Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova. It is also important that the article under discussion draws a conclusion that the protection of social morality in the criminal legislation of Moldova comprises both traditional for most states norms (for example, liability for pimping, illegal acts on pornographic objects, vandalizing a grave, etc.) and not quite common ones (liability for incest, obtaining child prostitution services; cruel treatment of animals by a person responsible for the care, protection and welfare of animals, for training or veterinary care; vandalism; debauched actions in the form of exhibitionism, compelling to participate in making pornographic performances, etc.).


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