Organized crime as a threat to security systems – serbian experience (JOVASEVIC & BATRICEVIC 2013)

Dragan JOVAŠEVIĆ  & Ana BATRIĆEVIĆ, Organized crime as a threat to security systems – serbian experience,

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„Studia Securitas”, Ed. Univ. „L. Blaga”, Sibiu, 2/2013, p. 86-102

 

Abstract

Not only does organized crime, emerging in various forms and shapes, seriously endanger national security of all contemporary states, but it also represents an international, global problem. That is the reason why several international legal documents have been adopted under the auspices of universal as well as regional and international organizations. These legal sources establish a system of international standards in order to provide adequate, efficient, effective and lawful suppression of organized crime and each state is expected to implement and apply them within their national legislations. In the past couple of years, during the process of European integration, the Republic of Serbia has been making significant efforts, particularly in normative and legislative sphere, in order to establish an efficient mechanism for prevention and suppression of organized crime. In this paper, the authors analyze essential characteristics of this form of crime and discuss its general effects on the safety of security systems.

 

Keywords

International Conventions, Organized Crime, Criminal Law, Serbia, Punishment

 

Institutional affiliation of the authors:

University of Niš, Faculty of Law

Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade