Perspectives of Law and Public Administration (Dec 2018)
ANALYSIS OF THE LEGISLATION ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY – KOSOVO CASE
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of legislative activity in Kosovo in the field of the justice for minors focused after 2004 year. The goal of paper is to offer the legal and institutional experience ragarding the criminal responsibility of minors, procedural regulations related to investigation, prosecution, judicial process, execution of decisions, rehabilitation as well as every measure that has do to with the minor as a victim or as a witness, or any measure which covers the conflict with the law and a minor victim or/and witness of penal act. Problems of minors in the conflict with the law are complex and they require inclusion of many actors before and after the criminal act is done. Without an inclusion of all actors, the system of juvenile justice will not be effective. Paper is focused in the juvenile justice including the penal sanction, diversity measures and education measures. For the needs of this paper the combined methodology is used with the methods of comparaison analysis and the method of sistemic analysis. Paper reviews the legal basis of juvenile justice in Kosovo in order to explain how effective it was from 2004 to 2017 year. Findings witness that legislative measures have not achieved needed efficiency regarding its implementation.
