Contemporary trends in criminal procedure legislation are deliberately looking for efficiency as well as the instruments of implementation of international standards both in its quantitative and qualitative aspects. Doctrinal considerations find their footing in the decades-long reform of criminal procedural legislation of the Serbia, whereas the question that has always represented one of the most significant characteristics of criminal procedural legislation in general is the correlation between the public prosecutor and the police and its contribution to the efficiency of criminal proceedings. Serbia adopted new Criminal Procedure Code in 2011, which entered into the force during the 2013. According to the abovementioned, the authors pay special attention to the following issues: first, the notion of the police and the police functions; secondly, the correlation of the public prosecutor and the police as a factor in the efficiency of criminal proceedings; thirdly, empirical research and proposals de lege ferenda.
The Mediterranean migrant crisis is not calming down and in the last six decades the nature and character of these migrations has changed. The authors deal with the one of the aspects of their position – detention. This work is divided into several parts. In the first part, the authors explore the problem of the migration crisis. After that, they explain in detail an Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The main part of this work is devoted to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights related to the migrant’s detention.
Knowing the problem of counterfeit medicines and medical devices and understanding the standards set by the Convention on counterfeiting pharmaceutical products and similar crimes that pose a threat to public health is also important for domestic situations, given that Serbia signed this Convention in 2019. Analysis of the standards of criminal law intervention in the domain of preventing the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines and medical products contained in the Convention and domestic (substantive) criminal legislation indicates that the future implementation of the Convention makes it necessary to introduce a special incrimination of counterfeit medicines and medical products into the Criminal Code. The paper presents the most important elements of incrimination de lege ferenda, while in terms of other normative interventions, the question of the legitimacy of the criminalization of the production and trade of substandard medicines, as well as the criminalization of the trade of unregistered medicines and medical devices, is open.
Migration has traditionally been considered in criminology as an external ambient factor of criminality, with the possible correlation being complex and multifaceted. The modern age is characterized by large and significant migrant movements, which makes classical criminological research of migrant criminality extremely topical, and imposes the need to test criminological attitudes in the context of contemporary migration. The paper points to the different criminological categories of migrants, presents contemporary empirical researches and the theoretical framework of (im)migrant criminality, analyzes the importance of public perceptions of (im)migrant criminality in shaping social response measures, especially in the context of possible disagreement on the actual situation and public perception. A special reference to domestic circumstances indicates that the (im)migrant population in Serbia, given its abundance and socio-demographic characteristics, does not have the potential for social disorganization that would result in increased criminality.
Victimological dimension of new criminality forms is a specific challenge for contemporary criminal law systems; new time brings new forms of criminality, new victims, but also new ways and opportunities for more efficient protection of victims. At the same time with review and improvement of existing standards of victims` protection, contemporary criminality control systems show strong tendency toward compromising the general position of the victim. Victim?s interests are being instrumentalized because of the justification of changes in criminality control in the direction of significant strengthening of criminal law repression. The crime which is emotionalized with the affective media presentation of the victim justifies stricter penal policy and provides the populist support for repressive criminality control strategies and criminal law expansionism. The aim of the paper is the analysis of the mechanisms of victim ?use? in contemporary criminality control and the examination of its consequences, with special review on domestic circumstances through analysis of the Code on special measures for prevention of crimes against sexual freedom towards juveniles (Marija`s Code).
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