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Narcotics and Juveniles: Addressing the Dual Impact

This presentation explores the connection between substance use and juvenile delinquency, highlighting the need for effective regulations and diversion measures. The focus is on the criminal code of Montenegro and its provisions regarding narcotics. The objective is to protect and support juvenile offenders while deterring future criminal behavior.

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Narcotics and Juveniles: Addressing the Dual Impact

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  1. Narcotics and Juveniles Authors: IVANA MARAŠ FACULTY OF LAW,UNIVERSITY OF MONTEnegro Student conference on Security and Safety in local communities, Podgorica, Montenegro, 9. 4. 2019 III. Internationalstudent conference „Safety in local communities-legal and criminological perspectives“’, Podgorica, 9 April 2019

  2. Narcotics and Juveniles AUTHOR: IVANA MARAŠ FACULTY OF LAW,UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO

  3. Basic terms: Juvenile - minor,a person below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible (18 in most countries) Narcotic - an addictive drug affecting mood or behaviour, especially an illegal one Juvenile delinquency - the habitual committing of criminal acts or offences by a young person, especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible.

  4. Double impact Substance use and criminal behavior are clearly interrelated. Behavior is learned and is influenced by the surroundings one lives in. Minors are less likely to be detected in commiting crimes and arrested. Impact

  5. Regulations • Criminal Code of Montenegro • - Chapter twenty four : CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST HUMAN HEALTH • -Article 300 : (1) Anyone who unlawfully produces, processes, sells, or offers for sale, or who for the purpose of selling buys, possesses, or transports, or mediates in the selling or buying, or otherwise unlawfully releases into circulation substances proclaimed to be narcotic drugs or plants containing such substances shall be punished by a prison term from two to ten years. • -Article 301 : (1) Anyone who instigates another person to use narcotic drugs or who gives narcotic drugs to another for his use or use of another person, or who places at disposal of another person the premises for the purpose of drug use, or otherwise enables another person to use narcotic drugs shall be punished by a prison term from six months to five years.

  6. Diversion measures • -warning • -attendance order • Criminal sanctions • -correctional measures • -a juvenile detention term • -security measures

  7. PURPOSE • The purpose of criminal sanctions is to provide protection and support to juvenile criminal offenders by way of supervision, general and vocational education, and development of a sense of personal responsibility in order to allow them to be educated and developed as well as to prevent recidivism in the future.

  8. THANK YOU !

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