{"id":20341,"date":"2025-04-22T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=20341"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:11:18","slug":"20250422-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20250422-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5th International Conference \u201cTrends and Challenges in European and National Criminal Justice Policy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On April 4, the fifth joint criminal justice conference, organized by Vytautas Magnus University (VDU), Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), and the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (LCSS), was held, this time joined for the first time by Vilnius University (VU). This year, the conference took place in Kaunas at Vytautas Magnus University. Two researchers from the Institute delivered presentations: Dr. Rokas Uscila presented \u201cThe Penal Enforcement System in Lithuania: Quo Vadis\u201d<\/i>, and Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis spoke on \u201cStandards of Proof in Asset Confiscation Proceedings in Lithuania and Europe\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>

In his presentation, Dr. Rokas Uscila emphasized the importance of consistently pursuing strategic objectives established in the strategic documents of both the Lithuanian Prison Service and the Lithuanian Probation Service. The most significant challenges faced by the Prison Service include the phasing out of outdated and inadequate infrastructure and addressing fundamental personnel issues: the transition of staff to dynamic security and resocialization roles, balancing core job responsibilities and prison work, shaping a new generation of officers, and shifting the relationship between correctional officers and service providers (such as social workers, psychologists, therapists, and program facilitators).<\/p>

Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis highlighted the absence of a unified standard of proof in civil proceedings, both at the national and international levels. Paradoxically, the standard of proof regarding the origin of assets (though not culpability) in criminal proceedings may be lower than in civil proceedings, where it can be higher. A cause for concern is the observable trend of exceptionally low standards of proof being tolerated in establishing guilt in criminal proceedings - such as in Latvia for asset legalization cases and in Lithuania for unlawful enrichment cases. Dr. Bikelis also adressed the importance of distinguishing between the standard of proof and the nature of evidence. Indirect (circumstantial) evidence should not be equated with a lower standard of proof. Full conviction regarding the criminal origin of assets can indeed be reached through indirect evidence.<\/p>

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Baland\u017eio 4\u00a0d. jau penkt\u0105j\u012f kart\u0105 \u012fvyko bendra VDU, MRU ir LSMC Teis\u0117s instituto baud\u017eiamosios justicijos konferencija, prie kurios pirm\u0105 kart\u0105 prisijung\u0117 ir VU! Konferencija \u0161iemet vyko Kaune, VDU. Joje prane\u0161imus skait\u0117 du Instituto mokslininkai: dr.\u00a0Rokas Uscila \u201eBausmi\u0173 vykdymo sistema Lietuvoje: quo vadis\u201c ir dr.\u00a0Skirmantas Bikelis \u201e\u012erodin\u0117jimo standartai turto konfiskavimo procesuose Lietuvoje ir Europoje\u201c. Rokas Uscila prane\u0161ime pabr\u0117\u017e\u0117, kad Lietuvos bausmi\u0173 vykdymo sistemoje turi b\u016bti nuosekliai siekiama i\u0161kelt\u0173 strategini\u0173 tiksl\u0173, kurie \u012ftvirtinti tiek Lietuvos kal\u0117jim\u0173 tarnybos, tiek Lietuvos probacijos tarnybos strateginiuose dokumentuose. Did\u017eiausi i\u0161\u0161\u016bkiai kyla Kal\u0117jim\u0173 tarnybai atsisakant visi\u0161kai netinkamos pasenusios infrastrukt\u016bros, taip pat sprend\u017eiant esminius personalo klausimus: darbuotoj\u0173 per\u0117jimas \u012f dinaminio saugumo ir resocializacijos veiklas, darbuotoj\u0173 pagrindini\u0173 darb\u0173 ir darbo kal\u0117jime pusiausvyra, naujos kartos pareig\u016bn\u0173 formavimas, taip pat pareig\u016bn\u0173 ir paslaugas teikian\u010di\u0173 darbuotoj\u0173 (soc.\u00a0darbuotoj\u0173, psicholog\u0173, terapeut\u0173, program\u0173 ved\u0117j\u0173 ir kt.) santykio kaita. Skirmantas Bikelis atkreip\u0117 d\u0117mes\u012f, kad n\u0117ra vieningo \u012frodin\u0117jimo standarto civiliniame procese (tiek nacionaliniu, tiek tarptautiniu lygiu). Gali paradoksaliai skamb\u0117ti, bet turto kilm\u0117s (bet ne katumo) \u012frodin\u0117jimo standartas baud\u017eiamajame procese gali b\u016bti \u017eemesnis, nei \u012frodin\u0117jimo standartas civiliniame procese, kuriame jis gali b\u016bti auk\u0161tas. Susir\u016bpinim\u0105 kelia matomi pavyzd\u017eiai, kai kalt\u0117s nustatymui baud\u017eiamajame procese i\u0161imties tvarka toleruojamas \u017eemesnis \u012frodin\u0117jimo standartas (Latvijoje turto legalizavimui ir Lietuvoje neteis\u0117tam praturt\u0117jimui). S.\u00a0Bikelis taip pat pabr\u0117\u017e\u0117, kad nereikt\u0173 tapatinti \u012frodin\u0117jimo standarto ir \u012frodin\u0117jimo pob\u016bd\u017eio: \u012frodin\u0117jimas netiesioginiais \u012frodymais n\u0117ra tapatus \u012frodin\u0117jimui \u017eemesniu standartu. Ir netiesioginiais \u012frodymais galima pasiekti visi\u0161k\u0105 \u012fsitikinim\u0105 d\u0117l nusikalstamos turto kilm\u0117s. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20346,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341\/revisions\/20346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}