ON CERTAIN CRIMINAL-LEGAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CORRUPTION IN REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

Svetlana Iličin; Joko Dragojlović

doi:10.5937/ptp2203069I

Authors

Svetlana Iličin PhD candidate, The Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia
Joko Dragojlović The Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary in Novi Sad, The University of Business Academy in Novi Sad, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4713-1855

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5937/ptp2203069I

Keywords:

corruption, giving and receiving bribes, organized crime, abuse

Abstract

Corruption is a negative social phenomenon being present in all societies and states, and which can be found in all layers and relationships within a society. Corrupt practice, as an ubiquitous negative social phenomenon, certainly has its political, sociological, criminological, legal and other aspects. Bearing in mind the fact that the widespread corrupt practice significantly erodes the foundation of society, the allowance of its both survival and deepening necessarily results in the abandonment of democracy, democratic values, legal certainty and the rule of law. Therefore, every legislator, including the legislator in Republic of Serbia, prescribes various material and procedural legal measures trying to suppress corruption in the country. This paper looks at certain criminal law specific features of the incrimination of corruption at both the international and national level, but also at certain procedural aspects of prosecuting corruption crimes. In this sense, there is involved the competence of the specialized prosecuting and judicial authorities, including special evidentiary actions that are regularly used in discovering and prosecuting corrupt criminal oﬀenses.

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