Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac
Received: 9 January 2020
Accepted: 18 February 2020
UDK: 341.231.14:343.988-053
Pages: 127-144
doi: doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.58.1.2.7
The fact that in modern conflicts civilians, including juveniles, present the largest number of victims, has directed the activities of the international community towards providing more intensive protection to these persons. In that sense, the Statute of the International Criminal Court prescribes certain crimes that constitute the exclusive injury or endangering of juveniles as passive subjects, and in respect of certain international crimes, there is an attitude that they constitute particularly grave offenses when committed against juveniles. The aims of the paper are to show how these crimes are prescribed in international criminal law, what are the views of the case law in international criminal justice in relation to these crimes, and what are the consequences of these crimes against minors. In order to achieve these goals, a normative-dogmatic method for the analysis of relevant norms of international criminal law, and content analysis for the research of decisions of international criminal courts and theoretical views on international crimes whose victims are minors, will be used in the paper.
KEY WORDS: juvenile offenders / European standards / rights of children and minors.
