CRIMINAL-LEGAL ASPECTS OF CORRUPTION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the criminal-legal aspects of corruption in Bo- snia and Herzegovina. The author’s intention is to divert your attention and point out the legal and social specifics of corruption as legal and social phenomenon that under special attention of scientific, expert and gene- ral public for a reason. Respectfully, there is no area of human action or interaction that is immune to corruption. However, the institutional re- action of state to this criminality must be adequate and proportional to the needs of research and evidence in order to achieve desired results of criminal judiciary. Special attention is directed to the problem of defini- tion and understanding corruption with all its complex dimensions and the inability to coordinate one universal and comprehensive definition of this term. Also, this essay emphasizes problems of complexity of revealing the existence of these criminal acts and the aspect of verifying, i.e. proving the existence of these corruptive actions, while appreciating restrictive law conditions, materials and process.