{"title":"The difference in criminal thinking styles and the depth of involvement in criminal lifestyles with regard to the age, recidivism and violence of a criminal offence","authors":"Žana Vrućinić","doi":"10.5937/NABEPO24-20558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NABEPO24-20558","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to determine the differences in criminal thinking styles measured by Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles, PICTS (Walters, 1995; 2005), on the one hand, and criminal behavioural styles measured by Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form score, LCSF (Walters, White & Denney, 1991) on the other hand, given the age, type of crime and recidivism. The sample of this research consisted of 126 inmates of Banja Luka Correctional Facility. The results show that younger convicts violate social rules more than the older ones. The convicts who commit violent crimes have higher scores in interpersonal intrusiveness, while convicts who are prone to non-violent crimes have more present discontinuity as a criminal thinking style. Recidivists, unlike un-recidivists, have higher scores in self-indulgence and social rule break, and also have significantly more pronounced criminal thinking styles of mollification, entitlement, super-optimism and discontinuity. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47139070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dawes Jay, R. Lockie, Filip Kukić, Aleksandar Čvorović, Charlie Kornhauser, Ryan J. Holmes, R. Orr
{"title":"Accuracy of self-reported height, body mass and derived body mass index in a group of United States law enforcement officers","authors":"Dawes Jay, R. Lockie, Filip Kukić, Aleksandar Čvorović, Charlie Kornhauser, Ryan J. Holmes, R. Orr","doi":"10.5937/NABEPO24-21191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NABEPO24-21191","url":null,"abstract":"Height and body mass data is often self-reported by study participants. However, the accuracy of self-reported height and body mass data compared to these same measures collected by researchers is unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of self-reported height and body mass data to measured values within the US law enforcement population, and the impact these estimations have on the accuracy of BMI classifications. METHODS: Self-reported and measured height and body mass data for thirty-three (n = 33) male law enforcement officers (age: 40.48 ± 6.66 yrs; measured height: 180.42 ± 6.87 cm; measured body mass: 100.82 ± 19.86 kg) were utilized for this analysis. RESULTS: Paired samples t-tests revealed no significant differences in estimated and measured height (p=.830), body mass (p = .527) or BMI (p = .623). CONCLUSION: Self-reported height and body mass was accurate for calculating BMI within this population sample.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42868963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Snežana Knežević, Aleksandra Mitrović, D. Cvetkovic
{"title":"The role of auditing profession in detecting frauds in financial statements","authors":"Snežana Knežević, Aleksandra Mitrović, D. Cvetkovic","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-18979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-18979","url":null,"abstract":"Bearing in mind the increasingly complex economic environment and the emergence of new types of fraud, it is important to see what role the audit profession plays in detecting fraud and providing reasonable persuasion about fraud. The aim of this paper is to explain how the process of auditing financial statements works. The paper distinguishes between an auditor, a fraud auditor and a forensic accountant. The similarities and differences between these professions and their interrelationships are specified. The methodology used in the paper is content analysis. The results of the analysis revealed that audit and forensic accounting are inextricably linked in detection of fraudulent actions.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46955053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploitation of minors for pornographic purposes the sociodemographic and criminal profile of the perpetrator","authors":"V. Baić, Z. Ivanović, M. Oljaca","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-22247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-22247","url":null,"abstract":": The paper presents research in the form of a survey aimed at ex-amining the sociodemographic and criminal profile of the perpetrator of the crime of displaying, acquiring and possession of pornographic material and exploitation of a juvenile for pornography under Article 185 of the Criminal Code of Serbia, with particular reference to the imposed criminal sanctions. The survey was conducted at the beginning of 2018 and included 62 convicted male persons aged 18 to 70, prosecuted under jurisdiction of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating High-Tech Crime in the period from 2012 to 2016. The results of the research show that the perpetrators of the said criminal offense are exclusively male individuals of an average age of 36.6 years, whose structure in terms of the working status is extremely diverse, starting from workers of various occupations, students to pensioners. In terms of other so-cio-demographic characteristics, the results of the survey show that the largest percentage of the convicted offenders have completed secondary school, that the number of the employed and unemployed is the same, that they are not married, gravitate towards urban areas, and have not been convicted before. In terms of the modus operandi , the results of the survey show that two methods of execution are dominant: the first implies the use of P2P technology on the Internet and the use of certain closed networks, which allow searching, downloading and sharing of photos and audio-visual data whereas the other involves creating a false profile on the Facebook social network.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44389408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rule of law in the function of human dignity","authors":"R. Zekavica","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-21119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-21119","url":null,"abstract":": Human dignity is the universal value of human beings. They have this value because they are potentially mindful beings. This does not mean that every man is mindful, but that every man can be mindful, and therefore dignified. It makes possible for people to understand and accept themselves and others as a purpose. Therefore, the cognitive power of people and the ability to impose on themselves the moral principles of conduct themselves are the basic prerequisite for dignity. People can be their own legislators, which means free beings. An important step in achieving human dignity is human will. Human actions must be in line with the mental knowledge of a priori principles of action, the essence of which is reflected in the ethics of duty, towards oneself and others. Hence, dignity has two very important aspects. The first concerns the attitude towards oneself, and the other relates to others. As a legal requirement, human dignity is the duty of the state and individuals to refrain from all acts that violate human dignity. By virtue of the rule of law, the state fulfils its duty of protection of dignity as a system of laws containing prohibitions of violation of human dignity. However, the fundamental role of the rule of law in the protection of human dignity should not be seen solely in the set of a ban on such conduct. The rule of law, understood as the ideal of the rule of mindful laws, can provide much more through the standardization of social relations that affirm the conditions for survival of the individual as a free and dignified being and create conditions for the free, creative and responsible life of citizens. This implies the affirmation of not only legal-political, but also socio-economic pre-conditions for the dignified life of people.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71008855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Police state in the service of national goals and reflections of the constitutional laws of Prince Mihailo","authors":"Nebojša Ranđelović","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-19778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-19778","url":null,"abstract":"Having ascended the throne once more in 1860, Prince Mihailo fundamentally changed the constitutional situation in the country, setting as the highest goals transformation of the state and national liberation. In order to avoid Turkish interference in constitutional questions of the Principality of Serbia, still a vassal state at the time, Mihailo derogated the 1838 Constitution with constitutional laws. His constitutional laws, according to some of his contemporaries and many authors, created the conditions for a 'police state' to function. The laws on the National Assembly, on the Central government administration, on the Council of State, on Municipalities and municipal governments, made possible the functionality of an authoritarian regime, that is, a type of absolutism. However, Mihailo's enlightened absolutism gave the Prince and the state bodies a possibility for quicker prosperity of the state and the beginning of reaching highly placed national goals. The so-called 'police state' can, in certain historical moments (especially in a peasant state in the making, as was the case with Serbia), be a more efficient and desirable way of state organization than other state regulations.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81465181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Lamovec, V. Jović, S. Jaćimovski, G. Jovanov, V. Radojević, J. Šetrajčić
{"title":"Hardness and assessment of adhesion of monolayer and multilayer nickel thin films electrochemically deposited on silicon substrates with and without the ultrasonic agitation","authors":"J. Lamovec, V. Jović, S. Jaćimovski, G. Jovanov, V. Radojević, J. Šetrajčić","doi":"10.5937/NABEPO24-19682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/NABEPO24-19682","url":null,"abstract":"Composite systems of monolayer and multilayer nickel films electrochemically deposited on single crystal (100)-oriented silicon wafers were fabricated with and without the ultrasonic agitation. The hardness and adhesion behaviour of these composite structures were characterized by Vickers microindentation test. The dependence of composite microhardness and film adhesion on the structure of the film and mixing conditions of electrolyte were analysed. Mathematical models of Chicot-Lesage and Chen-Gao were applied to experimental data in order to obtain the film hardness and adhesion parameter respectively. It is confirmed that the mechanical properties of composite systems of nickel thin films on silicon substrate can be enhanced by formation of multilayer film structure by ultrasound-assisted electro-deposition and by reducing the layer thickness in the multilayer film.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":"55 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83408259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cause and effect relation between the current migrations and terrorism in Western Europe","authors":"Nedeljko Cvetković, Danilo Vujović","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-19230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-19230","url":null,"abstract":": The key subject analyzed within this article - the existence, and char-acter, of the cause and effect connection in regard to the current migrant crisis and the rise of terrorist activity in Western Europe – required first a look back at the terms terrorism and migration, their respective characterisitics, as well as the geopolitical factors affecting them; secondly, it required an analysis of their mutual interaction; and finally, a comparison of the points of view taken by all the parties involved when approaching this problem, as well as determining certain potential solutions to the myriad of problems caused by the migrant crisis. This subject, we feel, is relevant due to the important role terrorism has in causing the migration of muslim population from Africa and the Middle East toward the European Union, as well as the potential effect of the said migration on the spreading of terrorism within Europe itself. Whilst researching the literature needed to write this article, the authors used the method of content analysis. Existence of the direct link between terrorism - as one of the causes of migrations, and migrations - as a condition helping the expansion of terrorism into Europe, presents itself as a result of the conducted research.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71008798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of private security a case study of students from Serbia and North Macedonia","authors":"B. Janković, V. Cvetković, A. Ivanov","doi":"10.5937/nabepo24-23302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/nabepo24-23302","url":null,"abstract":": In the last two decades of the 21 st century, the significant development of the private security industry has taken place in Serbia and North Mac-edonia. However, the private security industry in these two countries did not reach professional standards as in other states of the former Yugoslavia. The aim of this paper was to determine students’ perception of private security and its employees. The survey data were collected using an anonymous survey of 354 students (296 from Serbia and 58 from North Macedonia). In both countries the attitudes are heterogeneous, but a relatively small number of respondents have expressed a high level of perception of private security. The research has shown that gender, as one of demographic characteristics, has its role in shaping young pexople’s views on the private security, that is, the female population has more positive views about private security officers, their integrity, and the nature of the private security job. The findings offer policy-makers and private security companies the opportunity to deploy new strategies to upgrade public attitudes towards private security, especially aimed at the male population.","PeriodicalId":33498,"journal":{"name":"NBP Nauka bezbednost policija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71008994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}