| Abstract [eng] |
Each state, and also Lithuania has its own system of criminal law sources. These systems usually consist of some, a kind of hierarchy of legal acts, judicial precedents and other documents, as well as scientists’s researches. Depending on what kind of legal tradition the country depends on different individual sources importance and the place in their hierarchy. This study analyzes the Lithuanian criminal sources of law in determining their place in the hierarchy, comparing them with each other, determining the direct application in the criminal practice and finding the problem aspects. In addition, this study also analyzes historical Lithuanian criminal law sources from the pre-statutes period till the last recovery of the state independence. The aim is to identify historical trends of sources evolution and different main features of the sources throug a different periods of time and the criminal justice innovations such as new institutes, penal system changes, changes in the concept of crime and other matters relevant to the criminal justice source. This study begins with concise analysis of source of law and legal thought source concepts in order to determine exactly what the sources of law consist of Lithuanian criminal law system, giving the list of sources to be analyzed. The second part of the study analysis the historical sources of Lithuanian criminal law, and the last part of this study analysis the existing Lithuanian criminal law sources. All three parts of the study are logically linked with each other and complement each other, reveals the historical Lithuanian criminal law sources development, with different periods resulting innovations reason, the current source application characteristics and interrelation. |
