RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE LAW OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

In recent decades, the international community has recorded numerous examples of different forms or types of manifestation of criminal offenses of terrorism with various consequences. Therefore, it is logical that an efficient system of measures, means and procedures to prevent and suppress these forms of illegal and socially dangerous behavior has been established first at the international level, and then in national legislations. A system of criminal responsibility and punishment, which is based on international standards, appears as one of the specific means for prevention of commission of criminal offenses of terrorism in general or some of their aspects - forms of manifestation. In this regard, special attention is paid to confronting different forms of manifestation of preparatory actions, that is, complicity in the form of incitement to the commission of criminal offenses of terrorism, which acquire a special social danger and gravity. Namely, different forms of inciting, inducement, recruiting, propagation of terrorist activities by individuals or groups are foreseen as criminal offenses with severe punishments for their perpetrators. Within the scope of these criminal offenses, two criminal offenses of incitement to the commission of terrorism are distinguished, which prevent and remove the sources that lead to the emergence or spreading of certain terrorist activities. The concept and characteristics of inciting or propagating the commission of criminal offenses of terrorism in international law and the law of Bosnia and Herzegovina are discussed in this paper.