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National Regulations in the Shadow of a Common Past- Criminal Policy in Croatia and Overview of Criminal Legal Regulation and Justice System

After its independence, Croatia shifted from a socialist regime to a democracy, and the law reform followed. Croatia has enacted a new Constitution in compliance with all international standards, abolishing the death penalty. At the beginning of its independence, it has taken existing legislature of Yugoslavia, but later it has been working on its own legislature and reformed the judiciary and (criminal) law system. Therefore, in the past few decades, it has gone through significant law reform, among other law areas criminal law was also significantly affected and influenced by the state law reform. Many new laws were enacted regulating the area of criminal law, as well as the laws regulating some issues relevant to criminal law (both substantive or procedural, and penitentiary as well). The main laws in the field of criminal law (in the broader sense) are the Penal code for Substantive criminal law, the Criminal Procedure Act for Criminal procedural law, and Penitentiary Act for Penitentiary or executive law.

Croatia's judiciary system ; legislative reform ; criminal substantive and procedural law

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