Conditional release: Disputable questions and modern normative solutions
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conditional release; prison capacities; supervision; sentenced personAbstract
Modern tendencies in penal policy, the wide use of imprisonment and the phenomenon of the longtime growth of prison population impose the need to reassess the purpose of conditional release, i.e. to show the new interpretation of the conditional release function. In spite of the rich and long-lasting experience of the practical use of different forms of conditional release, dilemmas are being maintained, both conceptual and normative, regarding the models of conditional release, the method of the decision-making and the body authorized to decide about conditional release, the relevant period of the served sentence, the conditions needed for conditional release, the validity of the supervision of the sentenced person on conditional release, as well as the forms of the necessary supervision, the content of the obligations and prohibitions that should possibly be posed to the sentenced person on conditional release. Similar dilemmas regarding this legal institute are following the practice of conditional release in the Republic of Serbia, despite more than 140 years of continuous use of conditional release. Especially emphasized current interest for the conditional release problems in domestic conditions is the consequence of the perennial overburdening of prison capacities as well as the new legal provisions about conditional release. The review of disputable questions and their interpretation in current conditions should contribute to the understanding of the existing dilemmas and finding the functional solutions for practical use of the relevant legal provisions.
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