Fighting corruption by justice authorities in Prizren

AuthorDriola Susuri
PositionUniversity 'Ukshin Hoti' Prizren, Republic of Kosovo
Pages85-95
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. 2
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, 2020
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N 2410-391
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Fighting corruption by
j
ustice authorities in Prizren
PhD
C.
Driola Susuri
U
niversity “
U
kshin Hoti” Prizren, Republic o
f
Kosovo
Ab
str
a
ct
C
orruption is the use and abuse o
f
public power
f
or private purposes mani
f
ested in various
ways. The most common are fraud, bribery, nepotism, abuse, favoritism, etc.
A
s a negative phenomenon of society,it is widespread in all countries of the world, but the rate
of its rise di ers. Corruption is more widespread in Southeast
E
urope and especially in the
W
estern Balkans where we also are an integral part of these countries.
I
n order to investigate
this phenomenon, we have
f
ocused on the
ght against corruption by the justice institutions
i
n the Prizren re
g
ion.
T
he ob
j
ective o
f
the research is to hi
g
hli
g
ht the work o
f
the
j
ustice authorities, that is o
f
the Basic
P
rosecution and the Basic Court of Prizren in their proceedings related to the prosecution and
conviction o
f
perpetrators o
f
criminal o
enses sanctioned as “
O
cial corruption and criminal
o enses against o cial duty”. The research targeted the time period of 2017 and 2018
.
T
he methods used in conducting the research are qualitative and quantitative, analytical, and
comparat
i
ve
.
Based on the foregoing, the focus of the paper is to clarify the e ciency of the Prizren Basic
P
rosecution’s work in prosecuting perpetrators of corruption o enses as well as the sentences
i
mposed by the Basic Court as the preventive and punitive purpose of punishment was
a
chieved. Based on the research conducted it was concluded that althou
g
h a considerable
n
umber of criminal cases of corruption were resolved, however, the sentences imposed did
n
ot achieve the speci c and general purpose of the sentence, which had an impact on the
e
ciency of criminal prosecution developed. The tightening of punishment policies would
a
ect the strengthening of the ght against corruption
.
Ke
y
word
s
:
Corruption, prosecution, court, criminal prosecution, punishments
.
I
ntr
oduc
t
io
n
C
orru
p
tion is the abuse o
f
o
cial
p
osition and
p
ublic authorizations with the intent
to illegall
y
ac
q
uire an
y
material bene
t.
A
mong the o
cial
p
ersons and the
p
ersons
i
n
p
osition, this is
p
rimaril
y
p
er
f
ormed b
y
taking bribes, gi
s, abusing o
cial dut
y
o
r authorit
y
, and exerting in
uence (Kabashi 2008:
p
.2).
A
ccording to Trans
p
arenc
y
I
nternational, the countr
y
o
f
Kosovo in 2015 was ranked
t
he
8
5
th
com
p
are
d
to t
h
e
p
revious
y
ear w
h
en it was ran
k
e
d
t
h
e 95t
h
whi
c
h
w
as
a
p
rogress,
b
ut again remaine
d
wit
h
in t
h
e countries consi
d
ere
d
as t
h
e most corru
p
te
d
i
n
E
uro
p
e. The legal and institutional
f
rameworks are the ke
y
targets in
ghting
c
orru
p
tion. B
y
more or
f
ewer di
erences the criminal o
enses against o
cial dut
y
are sanctioned in all contem
p
orar
y
criminal legislations (Salihu & Zhit a & Hasani
2014:
p
.1203). The Re
p
ublic o
f
Kosovo also has
q
uite an advanced legal in
f
rastructure
regarding sanctioning o
f
corru
p
tion. The Criminal Code o
f
the Re
p
ublic o
f
Kosovo
that entered into
f
orce in Januar
y
2013, in cha
p
ter XXX
I
V sanctioned the criminal

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