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Criminal law responses to smuggling of people in Croatia and Serbia with the analysis of situation and trends

The paper deals with the criminal law aspect of smuggling people as a global problem of illegal migration. The legislative framework starts from relevant international documents at a multilateral, regional and bilateral level. On this basis, the national de lege lata solutions in the Republic of Croatia, as a member of the EU, and the Republic of Serbia, as an applicant for membership, have been critically reviewed. The authors have investigated the situation and trends of smuggling of people in the countries on the Balkan Crime Route. More detailed were analyzes data on the number of reported, accused and convicted persons for the crime of smuggling of people in the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia in the last two years. Anticriminal solidarity of states is a prerequisite for comprehensive international criminal justice cooperation in the detection, prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of these criminal offenses. The final part of the paper presents de lege ferenda proposals with an aim of improving the normative framework and procedures for combating smuggling of people.

smuggling of people ; criminal legislation ; analysis of situation and trends ; Croatia, Serbia and EU.

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