PUNITIVE POLICY FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC TRAFFIC SAFETY ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL CODE OF KOSOVO

Fatime BAMJA

Abstract

One of the main aims of every society and state is a regular and safe operation of public traffic. At present, criminal offenses against public traffic safety have experienced an alarming increase both in our country and all around the world, so they are foreseen in the legislation of all democratic states, which aim at the rule of law and maintaining legal order. Rapid technical and technological development has enabled the rapid growth of public traffic, with its negative and positive sides. Unfortunately, the risks that these criminal offenses bring usually end in fatality, such as death, with minor and serious bodily injuries, as well as with countless material damages, so with this group of criminal offenses, human life, integrity, and property are attacked in traffic. As a consequence of the dangerous nature of these criminal acts, the Criminal Code of Kosovo provides criminal sanctions for those who endanger public traffic. Therefore, taking into consideration the increasing tendency of these criminal acts, it is necessary to fight and prevent these criminal acts, not with the sole purpose of punishment but also the education and re-socialization of these perpetrators, so that they do not repeat the behavior in the future their previous criminal record.

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