| Abstract [eng] |
The Master's thesis analyses and reveals the concept of recidivism and recidivist, the types of recidivism and the development of the legal norms regulating the recidivism institute in the Republic of Lithuania. The work focuses on the regulation of the types of simple and dangerous recidivist in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. The work reveals the development of the legal norms regulating the institute from Pamedes Teisynas, adopted in 1340, to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, which entered into force in 2003. The regulation of recidivism in the Republic of Lithuania is compared with the regulation in the Kingdom of Norway in order to find similarities and differences. A large part of the work is devoted to an analysis of the meaning of recidivism in the Lithuanian Criminal Code, comparing it with the meaning of a recidivism-like institute in the Criminal Code of Norway. The significance of recidivism for the purpose of exoneration from criminal liability, the significance for the imposition of a sentence on the perpetrator, the significance for the suspension of the execution of a sentence or for the exemption from the execution of a sentence, as well as the significance for the time limits for expiry of a criminal record are reviewed. The last part of this paper aims to discuss possible measures to reduce recidivism, and provides a brief overview of the resocialization measures of prisoners in Lithuania and Norway. It also focuses on a comparison of the penalties for certain different offences in the countries, as well as on the conditions of detention places for prisoners in Lithuania and Norway. |
