{"id":20539,"date":"2025-06-27T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=20539"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:01:11","slug":"20250627-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20250627-2\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Bikelis participated in the Stockholm Criminology Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From June 9 to 11, 2025, Dr Skirmantas Bikelis, a researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, broadened the international academic destinations of Lithuanian criminologists by attending the annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium in Sweden.<\/p>

The symposium impressed the researcher from the very beginning \u2013 its opening featured a traditional introductory panel discussion in which the laureates of the symposium, Frances Crook (United Kingdom) and Bryan Stevenson (United States), engaged in conversation with Sweden\u2019s Minister of Justice, Gunnar Str\u00f6mmer, and the Director of the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, Jonas Trolle. The discussion focused on juvenile crime prevention in the context of emerging challenges in Sweden. The laureates emphasized a crucial point: children are children, not monsters.<\/p>

Later, the laureates delivered individual lectures. Frances Crook expanded on the topic of juveniles in the criminal justice system, highlighting the situation in England and Wales \u2013 particularly the age of criminal responsibility and the types of institutions in which minors are incarcerated. Bryan Stevenson, drawing on his own experiences, conveyed three key messages to criminologists: to engage directly with the phenomena they study, to distance themselves from misleading narratives that arise from detached analysis, and to maintain hope.<\/p>

During the symposium, Dr Skirmantas Bikelis presented a paper discussing three approaches adopted in Europe to address the ineffectiveness of criminal prosecution for asset legalization: the German solution, which has been incorporated into the new asset confiscation directive (1260\/2024) and allows confiscation proceedings within the criminal process even after the termination of prosecution; the Lithuanian approach, in which, after the termination of prosecution, a civil process is initiated to declare the property ownerless \u2013 an approach that has proven to be highly effective in practice; and the Latvian solution, which is highly controversial, as it both lowers the standard of proof for prosecuting money laundering (thereby undermining a fundamental principle of criminal procedure) and permits asset confiscation within criminal proceedings without completing the prosecution for money laundering. This latter option raises concerns regarding the presumption of innocence, as it allows the court to deem the property criminal in origin before a conviction is issued \u2013 thus making determinations about the essential elements of a crime the accused is charged with prior to a formal verdict.<\/p>

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2025\u00a0m. bir\u017eelio 9\u201311\u00a0d. Lietuvos socialini\u0173 moksl\u0173 centro Teis\u0117s instituto mokslininkas dr.\u00a0Skirmantas Bikelis papild\u0117 Lietuvos kriminolog\u0173 tarptautini\u0173 akademini\u0173 kelioni\u0173 kryptis ir apsilank\u0117 \u0160vedijoje vykusiame kasmetiniame Stokholmo kriminologijos simpoziume. Simpoziumas nuo pirm\u0173j\u0173 akimirk\u0173 mokslininkui suk\u0117l\u0117 \u012fsp\u016bd\u012f\u00a0\u2013 \u012f renginio atidarym\u0105 kviet\u0117 tradicin\u0117 \u012f\u017eangin\u0117 diskusija, kurioje simpoziumo laureatai\u00a0\u2013 Frances Crook (Jungtin\u0117 Karalyst\u0117) ir Bryan Stevenson (Jungtin\u0117s Amerikos Valstijos)\u00a0\u2013 diskutavo su \u0160vedijos teisingumo ministru Gunnar Str\u00f6mmer ir \u0160vedijos nacionalin\u0117s nusikaltim\u0173 prevencijos tarybos direktoriumi Jonas Trolle. Diskusija buvo fokusuota \u012f nepilname\u010di\u0173 nusikalstamumo prevencij\u0105, atsi\u017evelgiant \u012f \u0160vedijoje kylan\u010dius i\u0161\u0161\u016bkius. Laureat\u0173 akcentas\u00a0\u2013 nepamir\u0161ti, kad vaikai yra vaikai, o ne monstrai. Simpoziumo laureatai v\u0117liau kviet\u0117 ir \u012f savo paskaitas, kuriose Frances Crook prapl\u0117t\u0117 diskusij\u0105 apie nepilname\u010dius baud\u017eiamosios justicijos sistemoje, akcentuodama Anglijos ir Velso situacij\u0105\u00a0\u2013 nepilname\u010di\u0173 baud\u017eiamosios atsakomyb\u0117s rib\u0105 bei institucijas, kuriose kalinami nepilname\u010diai. Bryan Stevenson paskaitos metu tris \u017einutes kriminologams apipyn\u0117 savomis patirtimis\u00a0\u2013 kviet\u0117 kriminologus prisiliesti prie tiriam\u0173 rei\u0161kini\u0173, atsiriboti nuo klaiding\u0173 naratyv\u0173, kuri\u0173 kyla d\u0117l problem\u0173 nagrin\u0117jimo per atstum\u0105, bei tur\u0117ti vilties. Simpoziume dr.\u00a0Skirmantas Bikelis pristat\u0117 prane\u0161im\u0105, kuriame aptar\u0117 trejet\u0105 alternatyv\u0173, kaip Europoje siekiama spr\u0119sti turto legalizavimo baud\u017eiamojo persekiojimo neefektyvumo problem\u0105. Voki\u0161k\u0105j\u012f sprendim\u0105, \u012ftraukt\u0105 ir \u012f nauj\u0105j\u0105 turto konfiskavimo direktyv\u0105 (1260\/2024), kuriuo konfiskavimo procesas baud\u017eiamajame procese leid\u017eiamas po baud\u017eiamojo persekiojimo nutraukimo. Lietuvi\u0161k\u0105j\u012f, kuriuo po baud\u017eiamojo persekiojimo nutraukimo pereinama \u012f civilin\u012f proces\u0105 d\u0117l turto pripa\u017einimo be\u0161eimininkiu. Praktika rodo, kad \u0161io sprendimo efektyvumas yra itin auk\u0161tas. Ir Latvijos sprendim\u0105, labai gin\u010dytin\u0105, kuriuo, vis\u0173 pirma, ma\u017einamas \u012frodin\u0117jimo standartas kaltinant turto legalizavimu (t.\u00a0y. kvestionuojamas vienas pamatini\u0173 baud\u017eiamojo proceso princip\u0173), ir, antra, numatoma turto konfiskavimo galimyb\u0117 baud\u017eiamajame procese nebaigus turto legalizavimo baud\u017eiamojo persekiojimo. Pastaroji galimyb\u0117 kelia klausim\u0173 d\u0117l nekaltumo prezumpcijos sprend\u017eiant kalt\u0117s klausim\u0105, nes tokioje byloje turtas dar iki nuosprend\u017eio b\u016bt\u0173 pripa\u017eintas nusikalstamos kilm\u0117s, t.\u00a0y. teismas dar iki nuosprend\u017eio pasisakyt\u0173 d\u0117l nusikaltimo, kuriuo asmuo kaltinamas, esmini\u0173 po\u017eymi\u0173. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20539","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\/20539","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=20539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20544,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions\/20544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}