ALTERNATIVE CRIMINAL SANCTIONS IN NORDIC COUNTRIES

Olga Tešović

doi:10.5937/spz1802185T

Authors

Olga Tešović Jugde in the Basic court at Požega and PhD student at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5937/spz1802185T

Keywords:

Nordic law, criminal sanctions, prison alternatives, social policy, equality of citizens, punitiveness

Abstract

The specifcity of the criminal law of the Nordic states is reﬂected in the fact that, in the trend of expanding punitiveness in the world and intensifcation in penal policy, one of the key features is avoiding the application of the prison sentence wherever it is possible and turning to its alternatives. Namely, the Nordic countries have remained on the same course for decades as regards the sanctioning of perpetrators of criminal offenses, and their mild penal policy, especially in the eyes of the Anglo-Saxon countries and countries under their inﬂuence, is directly related to high social spending in these societies and the existence of real social egalitarianism among citizens. The aim of this paper is to present a system of criminal sanctions in the law of the Scandinavian countries, with a key review of alternatives to prison sentence and their practical application, as well as to point out the reasons for the existence of such a system of sanctioning and its advantages in relation to legal systems with highly repressive elements in criminal policy.

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