In the Republic of Slovenia since the beginning of 1990s the Government has produced varions strategic documents on "fighting" economic crime. From 1997 on, successive strategies emerged aimed at suppressing this kind of crime. The authors find it symptomatic that strategies do not analyse the causes of this kind of crime nor do they deal with the genesis of various kinds of economic crime. It cannot be a surprise that the problem remains chronic or. according to public opinion and other indications, even gets worse. The improved strategy will have to reflect the interdisciplinary analzsis of the causes, phenomenology and "perpetrators" of economic crime. Together with the optimization of the repressive response of the criminal law, it needs to stress the importance of preventive measures. Vast literature on prevention of economic crime stresses the preventive potential of situational prevention, corporate governance, corporate culture, selection and education of personnel and so forth. A more comprehensive strategy against economic crime will have to define measures of its own success or failure and guarantee a proper balance between the drive for effectiveness and efficiency and the protection of human rights.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1639758
In the book author describes various consequences of the "war on terror" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First, he exposes the war as it is seen and experienced by its civil victims (for example civilians who had been wounded in the war, internally displaced persons who had been forces to free form their homes, arbitrarily detained people who had been held in US prisons ...). Second, he presents the war through the perspective of the Afgan and Pakistani political "elites" and members of their repressive apparatuses who work as subcontractors of the US in the "war on terror". And finally, he shows the war through the perspective of the resistance movement having been organized in Afghanistan and pakistan.
COBISS.SI-ID: 267875840
Sentencing issues are discussed at length in common law systems, but discussions infrequently include civil law systems. In an attempt to remedy this oversight somewhat, the article analyses the sentencing system in Slovenia, a fairly typical civil law country. The basis of the sentencing system is the concept of individualization of punishment, where proportionality is of the utmost importance and is set first by legislation determining sentencing ranges for specific offences and then by the judiciary aiming to narrow the ranges to an appropriate sentence in individual cases. The system is far from perfect, especially on the procedural side, butit offers a valid alternative to other sentencing solutions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1642062
Contemporary capitalism teaches children that everyone can make it in today’s society and that people are essentially free to choose the direction of their lives. This ideology has greatly contributed to young people’s feelings of inadequacy, anxiety and guilt. At the same time, they also more and more engage in various forms of self-torture as well as violent outbursts towards others. The paper looks at the news forms of self-violence that we can observe among youngsters in post-industrial capitalism as well as at the new forms of violence expressed in the society as such.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1653326
The local protest movement has raised a series of speci/ic criminological issues (e.g. various form s of corruption, plunderage and violence) that one way or an other relate to the question of control. Who or what controls the individual, capital, society and the state? Is the ethical and political ideal of individual and collective self-determination still able to inspire people, symbolized by the (ironic or cynical?) fatalism, feeling of helplessness, inner emptiness, jailhouse isolation, chronic fears, rumination of the media stupidity, crisis (spasmodic, but uncertain) management of everyday banality, and maybe even nasty impression that to the individual in these hopelessly ruined/perverted world remains only imbecilic/idiotic (hypocritical?) existence of the "zombie"] The answers to these questions should be sought from the perspective of maintaining social class power and the capitalist and labour struggles, thus this is the most appropriate theoretical basis for understanding and evaluating of the current criminal economy, which was formed as a counterrevolutionary reaction (of the "new liberalism") on the contradictions of "Keynesian project':
COBISS.SI-ID: 2723818