Efficiency of Investigation as an International Legal Standard – Experiences of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime in Serbia

Čvorović, Dragana and Vári, Vince (2024) Efficiency of Investigation as an International Legal Standard – Experiences of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime in Serbia. In: International scientific conference “Towards a better future: gender equality, cyberspace, and law” Bitola, 18.10-19.10.2024. University “St. Kliment Ohridski”- Bitola, Faculty of Law, Kicevo, pp. 76-94. ISBN 9786084670308

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Abstract

The process of reforming the criminal procedure legislation of the Republic of Serbia has been taking place for more than two decades. It is characterized by numerous peculiarities, and one of the key ones concerns the goal of the reform. The goal of the reform is to find the most adequate criminal procedure instruments to establish a normative basis for the desired degree of effectiveness of the investigation, and thus the effectiveness of the criminal procedure as a whole as an international legal standard. The realization of the above goal comes to the fore especially in cases of criminal offences of organized crime, considering the degree of their social danger and everything else that it entails for a society – in this case, in the Republic of Serbia. In view of this, a research was carried out, the aim of which is to answer the question: Did the introduction of the prosecutorial investigation instead of the previous judicial concept of investigation create a normative basis for its more effective implementation and thus the desired degree of efficiency of the criminal procedure as a whole, and if not, what should be done in this regard in order to achieve the set key goal of the work of the reform. In the conducted research, for the purpose of collecting primary data, a specially designed instrument was used – a questionnaire consisting of 5 questions. The conducted research as well as the materials on the basis of which this text was written show that the prosecutorial concept of investigation is in the function of both its efficiency and the efficiency of the criminal procedure as a whole

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