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Crime prevention policy in Croatia: criminal justice approach

It is well known fact that there is no crime-free society, not historically, nor cross-culturally. Smart crime policies thus don't strive to eliminate crime but rather to keep it at the lowest possible/tolerable level. Contemporary states differs in their ways of achieving this aim (in terms of developing or enhancing evidence based or ad hoc made policies, strategies, programmes, action plans, tools for monitoring and evaluation). Scientists know that establishment and development of crime prevention policy is very complex, time consuming and expansive job. Maybe that is one of the reasons why are they so often ignored by politicians in their ambitious plan to find easy, quick and low-cost solution to crime prevention issues as a response to public demands emerging from some highly media publicized case/s. They focus mainly on criminal justice system, demanding harsher sanctions and legal changes that would allow „tough“response to crime. The authors explore the real power and the role of criminal justice system in crime prevention policy from current Croatian perspective (another reform of the Criminal Code) presenting crime and sentencing data and the basic ideas underlining this reform.

crime prevention; criminal justice

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