NCJ Number
147338
Journal
Revija za Kriminalistiko in Kriminologijo Volume: 43 Issue: 1 Dated: (1992) Pages: 13-24
Date Published
1992
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This article examines the use of police power in Yugoslavia under the Communist Party.
Abstract
The police in Yugoslavia have maintained the law of the Yugoslav oligarchy, along with many repressive institutions, for more than 40 years. Police have been expected to protect the government's policies from noncompliant individual behavior. Behaviors associated with democratic societies have been severely repressed. Human rights and basic liberties have thus been violated and threatened. The police have been outside the control of legal and representative bodies. Police acted as the tool of the Communist Party elite. Following the Leninist model of "all national supervision and control," the Communist Party shaped the police to control people and their actions to conform with the dictates of the Communist Party elite. The repressive role of the police was applied in varying depress at particular stages of Yugoslav history. Amid the diversity that emerged after 1967 in the individual republics, the practices of the Yugoslav police can still be seen. 19 references (Publisher abstract modified)