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Правни факултет, Универзитет за пословни инжењеринг и менаџмент Бања Лука , Бања Лука
This paper pays attention to the way of the state responses to crime and corruption, in the modern systems of criminal justice and criminal policy. Crime involves the totality of all crimes in a particular time and space, which means that the crime is a mass phenomenon. These are behaviors that threaten or violate the most important social values, and from a legal point of view we say that behaviors are anticipated by the Criminal Laws of the States and for which are regulated the sanctions, and from a sociological point of view, the crime is the behavior of certain person or group, and the other members of the community condemned that behaviors. If poverty significantly expresses in any area, it will undoubtedly affect on committing of certain crimes. On the other hand, certain criminal acts are "reserved" exclusively for members of the propertied classes. What makes it difficult to determine wealth and crime, is the existence of "dark belt of crime’’. Such criminal acts hardly detect and even harder investigate and prosecute. Unlike crime, corruption is one of the concepts that are difficult to specify the content, given its meaning changes in different time context. Corruption is a reflection of the deterioration of the moral values of a society, and its essence is not in the amount of money received by corrupt official, but in the moral damage that makes the country unsafe, impressionable, and finally - illegitimate. It represents a flaw in a society, the absence of social norms that are necessary for the normal functioning of a state and society.
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