Criminal Law Protection of the Electoral Rights in the Contemporary Serbian Criminal Legislation
Autor/i: Bodrožić, P. Ivana,
Stranice: 21-36
UDK: 343.2/.7:342.82(497.11)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.63.1.2
Apstrakt: Free and fair elections, as well as electoral rights which are closely related to them, are considered to be one of the keystone elements of the contemporary democratic societies. Democracy as a value is highly important to every national and EU legislation. It can be promoted and safeguarded through several mechanisms, but the most important parts of its protection undeniably are free elections and legality and transparency in the field of electoral rights as a part of a wider concept of political rights. Electoral rights enjoy a complex system of protection that includes constitutional, administrative, misdemeanor and criminal law protection. Due to its importance for the overall political system of the state, understood in the context of freedom of expression of citizens' will, freedom of activity and prevention of violations and abuses of electoral rights, the legal framework for the protection of electoral rights also includes their criminal law protection. In the paper, the author tries to point out the general characteristics of the conception of the criminal law protection of electoral rights in the legislation of the Republic of Serbia by using dominantly the normative method, the method of generalizing abstraction and other methods of formal logic, accompanied by the classic analysis of certain criminal offences from this category. In the conclusion, it is underlined that criminal law has to be regarded only as a last resort within the complete system of protection of electoral rights, but with the strong role in a processes of achieving the desired degree of crime prevention, as an overall objective of criminal law protection of democratic elections.
Ključne reči: criminal law protection of electoral rights, democracy, free and fair elections, electoral rights.
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