AN ASSIGNMENT OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTION IN CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE (91)
The article deals with the issue of the legal nature and the problems related to understanding of an assignment of a law enforcement institution.
ISSUES IN SELF-EXECUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW TREATIES (55)
The article is devoted to an analysis of self-execution of international treaties encompassing norms of international criminal law in the sphere of the penal law of the Republic of Lithuania. The analysis presented in the article provides arguments for a thesis that the content of legal norms embedded in international treaties change in the process of their transposition into national criminal law.
IDENTITY THEFT IN CYBERSPACE: TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND CRIMINAL LEGAL ASSESSMENT (77)
The article analyses one of the stages of fraud in cyberspace, i.e. illegal disposal of confidential data proving personal identity in cyberspace. The specifics of fraud in cyberspace, particularities of identity verification in cyberspace and various e-services (e-banking, e-shops, etc.) allow us considering different issues concerning criminal legal assessment of illegal receipt of data, proving personal identity in the cyberspace, their possession at one’s disposal and use.
THE PROHIBITION OF COPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN: SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS (56)
The article deals with social and legal problematic of corporal punishment of children. International recommendations, experience of other countries, also social, cultural, pedagogical and legal development tendencies in Lithuania are analyzed. The authors make the conclusion that legal prohibition of corporal punishment of children is necessary in Lithuania, and it will form a new attitude in the society. Several versions of possible legal regulation are suggested for further discussions in a wider circle.
INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION OF PROBATION OFFICER IN SEEKING PROBATION GOALS: RESULTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH (97)
Based on the results of the empirical research (probation officers’ questionnaire survey), the article examines how probation officers evaluate their individual work in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the probation.
JURIDICAL CONCEPTION OF TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN (64)
In this article we look into juridical conception of Trafficking in Children. We analyze the symptoms of such crime in international level as well as in national juridical regulation level; we make a survey of concordance of definition of trafficking in children given in international law statements and the Criminal Code of Lithuania Republic.
RETHINKING SANCTIONING FOR TRAFFICKING OF GOODS: THE PROBLEM OF PROPORTIONALITY (II). ISSUES OF CONFISCATION AND TAX DUTIES (79)
The second paper continues to deal with the issues of proportionality of the system of sanctions and measures that are applied for offenders who were found guilty for trafficking of goods.
RETHINKING SYSTEM OF SANCTIONS FOR TRAFFICING OF GOODS: THE PROBLEM OF PROPORTIONALITY (I). PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONALITY AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS (78)
The article presents the results of survey of sentences in criminal cases of trafficking of goods which came into force in 2009–2011 in Lithuania. The results were analysed in the light of principle of proportionality.
THE TRANSFER OF A ROAD VEHICLE FOR DRIVE TO A PERSON UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL: LIABILITY AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE LITHUANIAN CASE-LAW (88)
The participation of drunk drivers in the road traffic and accidents caused by them is one of the major road traffic safety problems in Lithuania. A part of the drunk drivers are such who were given to drive by others. On this account in this article for the scientific analysis the topic of prohibition to entrust a vehicle to a person under the influence of alcohol and liability for the infringement thereof has been picked. In the article, while also invoking the analysis of the Lithuanian case-law, the Paragraph 6 of Article 126 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Lithuania is analysed in detail.
HOMICIDES IN LITHUANIA: LEGAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASASPECTS (79)
The article presents an overview of legal regulation of homicides in Lithuanian legal acts and some comparative insights into laws of other states, as well an inquiry into the concept of homicide applied in the jurisprudence of Lithuanian courts.