Figures of criminal offences that are committed through mass media

AuthorMirvete Uka
PositionUniversity 'Hasan Prishtina', Kosovo
Pages225-230
ISSN 2410-3918
Acces online at www.iipccl.org
225
IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania
Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 1
March 2016
Figures of criminal offences that are committed through mass media
PhD (C.) Mirvete Uka
University “Hasan Prishtina”, Kosovo
Abstract
The rapid development of information technology created endless possibilities for the
information and communication between people in the world. This made possible that within
few seconds information could be elaborated. In the meantime that freedom of speech and
opinion are protected with all international conventions and laws, this freedom and together
with it also the possibilities and actual standards endanger to put in service of the persons
which in one form or another, damage the general interest. The study seeks to explain cases,
forms and methods of how the presence in media can be misused. Based in the Criminal Code
of Republic of Kosovo there are the range of criminal offenses which can be committed through
mass communication in general and sometimes also through more serious media, written or
electronic. The major number of them has to do with such acts that help terrorism, encourage
race and religious hatred and in different forms, the use of children for pornography, risking
in this manner the greater values of humanism anywhere in the world. The fact of abolition of
special dispositions for criminal offences that are committed through media does not mean
that the danger from committing these acts does not exist. It is based in the fact that criminal
responsibility lays directly on the crime committer and not on the director or publisher of
certain media, in the meantime the last ones should be careful not to be in the service of crime
instigators by giving space to publication.
Keywords: criminal offenses, Criminal Code, mass media, law, terrorism.
Introduction
Special dispositions for penal acts committed through media have been in force in
Kosovo.1 These dispositions were transferred also to the New Criminal Code re-drafted
after the announcement of Independence. The changes violated the freedom press
and because of the systematic reaction of media, the legislation of the country approved
the law for amending the law (no.04/L-82) by which the above-mentioned dispositions
were abolished. Nevertheless it should not be thought that persons that work in media
will be amnestied for any illegal action that is connected to the media. Furthermore
knowing that the number of media today is high, the direct or indirect possibilities to
misuse them are also high. In the meantime the use of social networks and different
forums is creating also the negative effect in society, because the internet today is the
main source of recruitment for terrorism, collection of funds used for terrorism,
blackmail, intimidation and other criminal acts foreseen in the criminal code of
Republic of Kosovo.
1 Articles 28-33, Provisional Criminal Code of Kosovo, 2004.

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