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Once again for the draft of the new Criminal Code or the 'Constitution of Punishments'!
2025-08-06 21:23:33 / IDE
The new Penal Code, although in draft form, is not a summer joke that should be taken with a smile. This code is the constitution of punishments for every law enforcement institution: the prosecutor's office, the police, and the state courts.
It is a code that can affect everyone: those who draft it, their relatives, but also us who read it and write about it. So, everyone — because essentially there is no perfect citizen, but there are no perfect laws either.
I have tried to analyze the reasons for this package of penalties and whether it was necessary in the era we live in, in what can be called the era of European integration. And it does not seem to me that it comes close — in fact, in many articles it seems as if it was taken from the dark recesses of the past. Although I am convinced that this draft code will be canceled, because if it were to take final form as it is, it would constitute a scandal — initially for the drafters and then for the approvers.
I want to dwell a little on the drafters. It is surprising that a large part of the working group consists of young people, who enter the group after completing their education in the post-communist period — and have the mentality that prison is the solution to many violations, even those that are very minor in consequences. For me, this is very worrying. The Western or pro-EU spirit should dominate, not the Eastern spirit or the backward principle that punishment or fear preserves the vineyard.
Albanian society consumes a lot of violence, and it is also violent — in the family, in school, in society, in business, and even in the media. But violence is not reduced or controlled by violence. All studies of the most developed countries have shown that the best medicine is education, not punishment. Countries that have a low level of violence — Norway, Germany, etc. — pay a lot of attention to social and educational aspects, starting from receiving psychological assistance, community work, etc., as above for minor violations, but never prison. The question is: why should a citizen who commits a minor legal violation not face community work? Not for nothing, but we also have a shortage of labor. Would such a punishment or prison, the consequences of which could have an irreparable effect, be better and more effective? There are many proposals that could include the Western spirit, but unfortunately they are missing.
In a country where violence is culturally and socially based, this type of punishment manual will not only not solve this inherited wound, but may worsen it.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen who drafted it, take the penal constitution more seriously — repeal what resembles more a manual of institutional revenge than a pact of justice.
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