Naslov
Corruption Crimes and Anti - Corruption Strategy in the Republic of Croatia

Autori
Milivojević, Lana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
International Scientific Conference - Security in the Post - Conflict (Western) Balkans: Transition and Challenges Faced by the Repubic Macedonia / Cane Mojonovski, DhD - Skopje : Universitet Sv. Kliment Ohridski-Bitola, Skopje, 2011, 162-175

Skup
International Scientific Conference - Security in the Post - Conflict (Western) Balkans: Transition and Challenges Faced by the Repubic Macedonia

Mjesto i datum
Skopje, Sjeverna Makedonija, 27.05.2011. - 28.05.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
rule of law, corruption, corruption crimes, statistic data, anticorruption strategy, action plan

Sažetak
It is well known that corruption and its relation to organised crime is one of the oldest and the major problems in modern societies which is definitely depriving their structure in all sorts of ways. Besides the introduction annotations associated with the problem of corruption in general, and some marks about the legal international and national grounds which are used to combat corruption in the Republic of Croatia, this paper comprises the review of corruption crimes within Croatian Criminal Code with analysis of relevant official statistic data for assigned period of time. It is well known that the dark number of that kind of crime is rather high. In this paper we will try to explore two assumptions as a thesis. First is that the Republic of Croatia has a rather small number of reports, charges and convictions for corruption crimes according to crime in general, and the other is that the Republic of Croatia does not deviate from the average of other European countries on convictions for corruption crimes. Therefore we will analyse official statistic data about crime in general, a number of exposed corruption crimes in general, their type, number of reports, accusations and convictions, from which relevant conclusions will be adopted. Also, for comparative purposes and for proving second thesis, a short review of convictions for corruption will be given for foreign corruption crimes as well. Besides that, this paper also comprises of major postulates deriving from Croatian Anti-Corruption Strategy and the Action Plan attached to that Strategy. Combating corruption at all levels of society is a key of a successful anti-corruption strategy. It is also an obligation for the Republic of Croatia deriving from accepted international obligations from UN Convention against Corruption and from the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. According to the Croatian Anti- Corruption Strategy, priority fields fighting corruption in the Republic of Croatia are suppression conflict of interest among the public officials, enforcement of regulations related to the financing of political parties, achieving access to information, strengthening of public administration integrity, regulating a public procurement and the protection of person damaged by the corruption and those people who bona fide report about the corruption. Fighting corruption is a question of public safety and preserving a rule of law. Republic of Croatia must strengthen fight against the corruption even more. That is also one of the obligations deriving from European Union negotiation chapter 23 on Judiciary and Fundamental Rights in the process of EU accession.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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