Criminological Overview of Criminal Acts Against the Economy in Kosovo During the Time Period 2001-2010

• Author: Miftar Shala
• Position: PhD, University of Prishtina-Faculty of Law, Department of Crimial Law, Republic of Kosovo
• Pages: 121-130

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Criminological Overview of Criminal Acts

Against the Economy in Kosovo During

the Time Period 2001-2010

Miftar SHALA

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Abstract: This paper p resents an historical overview of the comparative criminal justice and of

criminal acts against the economy in Kosovo during the period 2001-2010. It considers the meaning

of criminal acts against the economy and their characteristics. The paper examines the reporting of

criminal acts against the economy. The paper offer s a comparative overview of criminal acts against

the economy in Kosovo with criminal acts against the economy in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro,

Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper examines some characteristics of these criminal acts

against the economy in Kosovo, by considering also the perpetrators’ age, gender, marital status, and

ethnicity. The paper o ffers suggestions and recommendations regarding criminal acts against the

economy in Kosovo during the period 2001-2010.

Keywords: criminal acts; criminological overview; fighting crime; Kosovo

1. Introduction

Criminal acts against the economy manifest certain criminological features which

are of interest for study and analysis in their criminological aspects. By studying

and analyzing the features that have to do with the volume of filing criminal acts

against the economy, their structure, their dynamics of movement, the personal

features of the perpetrators—as well as recognizing and analyzing the factors that

affect their performance—greatly help in the process of fighting and preventing

this negative phenomenon of society. During the presentation of the

phenomenology and etiology of criminal acts against the economy, this analysis

will use data from the studies and statistical evidence for various periods of time

dealing with Kosovo, and the data relating to these criminal acts against the

economy for the period 2001-2010 will appear separately.

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PhD, University of P rishtina-Faculty of Law, Department of Crimial Law, Republic of Kosovo,

Address: Agim Ramadani p.n. 10000, Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo, Corresponding author:

miftar.shala@uni-pr.edu.

AUDJ, vol. 13, no. 1/2017, pp. 121-130