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  • Criminal law and crime policy in transition countries : between human rights and effective crime control
    Šelih, Alenka
    Criminal policy must confront the dilemma between the protection of human rights and ensuring effective crime control. In CEE countries, criminal policy has been seen as closely connected with human ... rights; the previous one-party system by itself produced systemic human rights violations, which was not the case in older democracies. In these states, criminal policy thus shows varying levels of respect for human rights in different legislative trends. In the 1990s, the prevailing models supported effectiveness as the primary aim of crime control. It seems that the human rights agenda in the CEE countries had arrived at a time when in the older democracies its mobilizing strength had already been slowing down. The events on 11 September 2001 and their aftermath represented a dramatic turning point: the changed attitudes and the perceptible lowering of human rights standards also dealt a terrible blow to crime policy in CEE countries. In a situation like the one criminal policy is facing today, there are two possible scenarios on the future development of crime policy, as well as the societies at large: one leads in an ever more punitive direction, while the other attempts to reconcile effective crime control with the proper respect for human rights.
    Vir: Law and revolution : past experiences, future challenges (Str. [89]-95)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2024
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 192597507

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