The Criminal Law and Victimological Aspects of Environmental Crimes in the Republic of Serbia
Keywords:
environmental crimes, statistics, jurisprudence, victimsAbstract
The paper deals with criminal justice and victimological aspects of ecological crimes. In the first part, the author discusses the normative aspect of Chapter XXIV of the Criminal Code concerning crimes against the environment with special emphasis on the group object of protection. Separately, the analysis of the blanket character of disposition of environmental offences is approached with the basic idea that a distinction should be made between the three types of blanket clauses. In addition, in this part of the paper, certain dilemmas of jurisprudence were presented. The second part presents the statistical figures for the number of reported and convicted persons for environmental crimes in the period from 2007 to 2015 on the basis of processing by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. Finally, in the last part the author deals with the issue of determining the victims of environmental crimes. This issue is one of the most complex in terms of eco-incrimination because the consequences may not be clearly visible in each specific case, unlike some other crimes. This raises the question of whether the environmental offences are a victimless crime.
The main objective of this paper is to point out the shortcomings of the normative level and the dilemmas faced by the jurisprudence in the field of criminal law protection of the environment, and to provide suggestions for its improvement. In addition, statistics aim to draw attention to the proportions of ecological crimes in the Republic of Serbia.
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