| Abstrakt: |
Despite the harsh policies in this area with the aim of halting migration flow, during the last several years, a considerable number of cases of crimes have been evidenced. They all belong to the group of "founding slavery and transportation of persons in slavery" which are incriminated in Article 418 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of North Macedonia, in Chapter thirty-four in the group of "Criminal offences against humanity and international law". This research paper reflects on and analyzes the criminal policy of the Republic of North Macedonia on the illegal migration and other criminal offences related to this phenomenon, based on the explanation of the phenomenology of the types of these crimes, such as: Human trafficking (art.418-a); Smuggling of migrants (art.418-b); Organizing a group and instigating performance of crimes of human trafficking, trafficking of juveniles and migrants (art. 418-c); Abuse of visafree regime with the member countries of the EU and the Schengen Agreement (art.418-e), etc. This paper will reflect on the structure, dynamics and the volume of the crimes mentioned above based on the official statistical data published by the State Statistical Office of the Republic of North Macedonia for the period of January 2007 to December 2018. Additionally, this research attempts to reflect the real picture of the reported, accused and convicted perpetrators of the crimes which are subject of this research, as well as provide some detailed data analysis on the indicators such as gender, age, the number and the type of the criminal offences during 2007 and 2018, the type of the decision of the court, the type of the sentence applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
