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College of Service Business , Sokolac , Bosnia and Herzegovina
College of Service Business , Sokolac , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ministry of Justice of Republic of Srpska, Penitentiary Bijeljina , Bijeljina , Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alternative criminal sanctions enable the punishment of offenders and the execution of a sentence of liberty in the social environment in which the perpetrator lives and works, and their content constitutes special obligations, restrictions and prohibitions. Alternative criminal sanctions include penalties in the public interest, a home prison, and a court order banning the abandonment of an apartment as a house arrest, an electronic bracelet, a suspended sentence with protective control. The aim of this paper is to point out from a scientific and practical point of view the positive effects of the introduction of alternative criminal sanctions in the legislative system, as well as their possible shortcomings. The introduction of an alternative enforcement of a sentence of offenders greatly reduces the costs of executing a criminal sanction because the convicted person is serving the sentence at the address where he / she is staying in the family circle. Execution of a criminal sanction under such conditions eliminates the daily expenses that the institution would have if the person resides in it, where it primarily falls on the convict's diet, his treatment, the costs of transport from the institution on various grounds, the use of hot water, bedding and linen that the convicted person must have , the work of civil servants in the process of security and resocialization, and all other daily activities when serving the sentence in penal conditions. This type of execution of sentences creates great economic savings in the state budget. The application of alternative criminal sanctions separates primary offenders from penological and criminological returnees, which prevents "criminal infection" and recurrence.
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