Serbia and (anti)heroes

Abstract

The paper considers a development and social meaning of social heroes, as well as the substance, functions and dichotomies of heroism, with particular view on those conditions in a social system that enable and facilitate a mutual approximation and symbolic and functional alternation of its diverse categories. The situation in Serbia during the last two decades was particularly the object of attention in an attempt to fortify the assumption that extreme turbulent processes inside the social space, followed by willing and substantial antisocial activity of certain favorably positioned groups, as well as by specific processing of social reality by those unfavorably positioned, "ordinary" people, make possible the conversion of classic antiheroes into social heroes

Relationship between Continuity of Evidence and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - With Special Focus on the Criminal Procedure Legislation of the Republic of Serbia

“…On the other hand, as other authors point out, "certain kinds of criminal acts are much more often committed by powerful (and in turn invisible) people, who derive significantly greater financial benefits from their victims" (Willott, Griffin, & Torrance, 2001: 442), compared to the benefits resulting from general crime forms, and according to Kolar and Zdolšek (2013: 182), "it seems that economic crime is very detrimental to the wider social community". In other words, perpetrators of criminal acts in the economic crime area, "recognized" members of society, are rarely prosecuted owing to actual immunity which they enjoy as "respectable business people" (pavićević & Simeunović-patić, 2005).…”