MINORS AS PERPETRATORS AND VICTIMS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN THE JUVENILE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF MONTENEGRO

Abstract

Juvenile criminal legislation of Montenegro has experienced important changes in the last ten years. Special criminal and legal status of juveniles as perpetrators of criminal offences is additionally emphasized by adoption of the Law on Treatment of Juveniles in Criminal Proceedings in 2011, starting from substantive provisions of this Law, throughout its procedural provisions to provisions of enforceable type. In this Paper we have examined several questions. First, we present some general considerations on principle necessity to treat differently juveniles as perpetrators of criminal offences in comparison to adults where we have also addressed some important international documents as sources of modern legislations from this field. Then we looked at the question of the minor perpetrator of the criminal act in the substantive, procedural and executive juvenile criminal legislation. In accordance with the legal framework, we devoted more space to this issue, but we devoted a certain proctor, according to the title of this paper, to a minor as a victim of a criminal act.