Crime, Punishment and its Alternatives in Romania

• In Event: Balkan Criminology: Punishment and Prisons and their Alternatives

Abstract

The presentation will focus on the Romanian Criminal Code and the sanctioning system in this country. 10 years after its entry into force, the Code faced several modifications, out of which many of them aimed to increase the penalties or to exclude criminal offences for statute of limitation. The legal literature has criticized the numerous laws which „aggressed” the Criminal Code without a prior research in this respect. The presentation will thus show how sentences are regulated and applied in Romania, based on statistical data. We will also address whether alternatives to criminal penalties are or could be effective, especially in the context of prison overcrowding and how the Romanian legislator dealt with this issue after an ECHR pilot judgment.

Authors

• Andra Roxana Trandafir, University of Bucharest

• Daniel Nitu, Babes-Bolyai University, Facultuy of Law