International Scientific Conference „Archibald Reiss Days“, Belgrade 3-4 March, 2015, Academy of Criminalistics and Police Studies, 2015
Judicial practice and available official statistics indicate that discovering, proving and sancti... more Judicial practice and available official statistics indicate that discovering, proving and sanctioning the crime of animal cruelty, i.e. criminal offence of killing and torture of animals prescribed by Paragraph 269 of Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia seems to be connected with numerous obstacles and complications. This could be considered as one of the circumstances that contribute to the fact that the number of persons accused of or convicted for this criminal offence in Serbia appears to be rather small in comparison to the actual number of committed and reported cases of animal cruelty. Additional concern is caused by the fact that similar misbalance, showing the presence of so-called “dark figure of crime” follows other criminal offences against environment. In attempt to contribute to more efficient suppression of this type of criminality, the author of this paper discusses fundamental features of criminal offence of killing and torture of animals, draws attention to its most frequent forms (including killing of animals by using firearms or other weapons, animal poisoning, animal neglect, animal hoarding, sexual abuse of animals and causing unnecessary fear and distress to animals) and points out the most acceptable ways to provide valid, relevant and complete evidence against their perpetrators. Moreover, the author highlights the most common practical difficulties that might occur while attempting to provide evidence for each of the aforementioned types of animal cruelty and offers possible solutions that would improve the speed, quality and efficiency of evidentiary proceedings in such cases. Keywords: animal cruelty, criminal offence, criminal proceedings, evidence, proving.
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on the one hand, an effective mechanism for reducing the overcrowding
of penitentiaries, while at the same time enabling effective rehabilitation
and reintegration of convicts, through contribution to the local community. Despite the fact that Serbia has been facing the problem of overcrowding of prisons for a long time, and that the punishment of work in
the public interest, although in different modalities, has been recognized for decades as one of the key mechanisms for addressing this problem,
the pioneer attempts to address this problem have started fifteen years
ago. The adequate preconditions to increase a share of the community
service in the total number of the imposed criminal sanctions were created by the amendments to the legal framework in 2014. With this in
mind, in this paper, the authors present the results of the application of
the community service, collected as part of a comprehensive impact
assessment research on the application of alternative sanctions and
measures in the Republic of Serbia in the 2015-2020 period. The basis
for the conclusions presented in this paper are founded on the basis of
the data collected by triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods and analysed from the perspective of the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the existing system. The paper also
defines a set of recommendations for improving the normative framework and its application in practice and assesses their compatibility with
the measures envisaged by the Strategy for the Development of the System of Execution of Criminal Sanctions for the 2021-2027 period.
on the one hand, an effective mechanism for reducing the overcrowding
of penitentiaries, while at the same time enabling effective rehabilitation
and reintegration of convicts, through contribution to the local community. Despite the fact that Serbia has been facing the problem of overcrowding of prisons for a long time, and that the punishment of work in
the public interest, although in different modalities, has been recognized for decades as one of the key mechanisms for addressing this problem,
the pioneer attempts to address this problem have started fifteen years
ago. The adequate preconditions to increase a share of the community
service in the total number of the imposed criminal sanctions were created by the amendments to the legal framework in 2014. With this in
mind, in this paper, the authors present the results of the application of
the community service, collected as part of a comprehensive impact
assessment research on the application of alternative sanctions and
measures in the Republic of Serbia in the 2015-2020 period. The basis
for the conclusions presented in this paper are founded on the basis of
the data collected by triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods and analysed from the perspective of the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the existing system. The paper also
defines a set of recommendations for improving the normative framework and its application in practice and assesses their compatibility with
the measures envisaged by the Strategy for the Development of the System of Execution of Criminal Sanctions for the 2021-2027 period.
Key words: prisons, prisoners, health care, medical treatment, crime prevention