CRIMINAL LAW ASPECTS OF PROTECTION OF MINORS FROM DRUG ABUSE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Drug abuse as a social deviation is becoming an increasingly complex problem ofsociety which by its mass nature is a leading addiction that introduces variousforms of criminal behavior. Such a phenomenon is particularly pronouncedin relation to minors which are characterized by increasingly frequent use ofnarcotics with a tendency to reduce the age of minor users of narcotics, and apronounced prevalence of their victimization by drug abuse meaning of theiruse to undertake incriminating acts in the field of abuse drug. Such imposesthe actuelization of criminal law protection of minors from drug abuse withemphasis on criminal law protection and changes and amendments to criminallaw regulations by prescribing new criminal law provisions that would serve tostrengthen that protection.The authors referred to the elaboration of the normative, criminal law frameworkfor the protection of minors from drug abuse, pointing out certain shortcomings inthe legislative criminal law aspects of that protection and inconsistency of entitycriminal law regulations related to the protection of minors from drug abuse, withthe presentation of appropriate proposals de lege ferenda aimed at improving thecriminal law protection of minors from drug abuse in all its forms and modalities.