Serial crime in Bulgaria

criminological characteristic and judicial practice

Abstract

Based on a combined criminological, legal, psychological and historical analysis and analysis of convicts’ development during penalty execution upon OASys system of recidivism-risk assessments, the article presents a typology of the serial-crime cases known to the Bulgarian judicial practice. The factors and general features of serial crime, the perpetrator’s profile and the motivation and perpetration mechanisms of the series have been established out of case-by-case study, as well as criteria for recognition of the phenomenon in bordering cases. The judicial response has been analysed and complications in the legal qualification and the penalty individualization discussed.

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