THE COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND JUVENILE PRISON SENTENCE

Abstract

Juvenile detention is one of the types of criminal sanctions that may be imposed on juvenile offenders. It represents a specific punishment which is exclusively intended for this category of offen- ders, and which may be imposed by law under certain conditions. Bearing in mind that the sentence of imprisonment is being imposed routinely to juvenile perpetrators of criminal offenses, i.e. persons who are still developing, whose both mental and physical development and socialization are still ongoing, the author will discuss in this paper the concept, characteristics and conditions of a sentence of juveni- le detention, in certain comparative criminal laws, ie. in criminal legislation: Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia.