Lietuvos socialinių mokslų teisės institutas
Author: Darius Pranka
Topic category: Penitentiary Law
The study analyses the impact of the principle of justice on imposition of sentence for criminal offenses related to the illegal possession of large or very large quantities of narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Author: Raimundas Kalesnykas
Topic category: Penitentiary Law
The research study "The Concept of Dynamic Security in Places of Deprivation of Liberty" (hereinafter referred to as the research study) by Dr. Rokas Uscila, Senior Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of Law, is aimed at solving a topical and, at the same time, complex problem of the changes in the system of execution of penalties in the area of the perception of the concept of dynamic security and its introduction into the places of detention.
Author: Mindaugas Girdauskas
Topic category: Constitutional Law
The article examines the problems arising in legal science and practice with regard to the compatibility of the wording of court judgments terminating criminal proceedings with the presumption of innocence, the possibility of finding that the defendant has committed a criminal offense and granting civil damages to the victim when criminal proceedings are terminated upon expiry of the statute of limitations, and the possibility to grant civil damages when the proceedings are terminated on the grounds of release from criminal liability.
Author: Lina Beliūnienė
Topic category: Company Law
This article is aimed to answer the question of what indicators and data sources are used to measure the prevalence of corruption in various fields.
Author: Vaidas KALPOKAS
Topic category: Criminology
The growing society’s dependence upon fluent functioning of IT infrastructure shows the need to regulate digital space. It is also related to the interests of national security (protection of objects of critical infrastructure) and to the creation of safer environment for users. The author of the article draws attention to the need of constant and conscious communication among all the players at the international and local levels. The systemic approach while the roles and responsibilities are distributed among the different levels of security is the main premise of such communication.
Author: Simonas NIKARTAS
Topic category: Criminology
Article is devoted to an analysis of the influence of religion, as a factor of informal social control, in preventing crime as well as of the main forms and conditions of this influence. Preventive effect of religion is being analysed on three levels: religion as a social phenomenon, individual religiosity and targeted religious activities.
Author: Svetlana Justickaja, Aušra Gavėnaitė
Topic category: Criminology
The article gives an overview of the current situation of recidivism studies and researches in Lithuania. It also presents some insights for possible directions of national research development in future.
Author: Evaldas VISOCKAS
Topic category: Criminology
The article analyses trust and confidence in institutions of criminal justice system in Lithuania.
Author: Milda BURNYTĖ
Topic category: Criminology
This article examines the problem of low trust in political and legal institutions in Lithuania. In the context of European countries, Lithuania has one of the lowest rates of trust in political and legal institutions.
Author: Aušra Pocienė, Margarita Dobrynina
Topic category: Criminology
The article presents socio-demographic portrait of convicted who have been accused for the drug related crime in Lithuania. The portrait has been composed on the basis of Lithuanian data of criminal cases (2005–2009). It makes an alternative for the official statistical data which is too aggregated and imprecise in order to measure correlation between individual features and kind of crime or sentence.
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