Plea bargaining in criminal judiciary and legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

U radu se razmatra procesni institut pregovaranje o krivnji koji se u literaturi označava kao konsenzualni, a model kaznenog postupka i pravosuđa koji ga primjenjuje - konsenzualnim modelom. O sporazumnom utjecaju na razvoj kaznenog postupka autorice pišu s pozicije kaznenog procesnog zakonodavstva u Bosni i Hercegovini, uzimajući u obzir razloge zbog kojih je modificirani oblik angloameričkog sporazuma o priznanju krivnje uveden u domaći pravni sustav 2003. godine. U vezi s tim razmatraju se njegove prednosti i slabosti, kroz ključna pitanja balansiranja između zahtjeva za učinkovitost kaznenog pravosuđa i zaštite osnovnih ljudskih prava. Posebno se izlažu rezultati istraživanja kroz kontinuiranu održivost sporazumijevanja o krivnji u praksi (doduše, zasjenjenu kontinuiranim padom broja predmeta kroz godine istraživanja), te djelotvornost i efektivnost ovoga instituta s aspekta počinitelja kaznenog djela.The paper examines the procedural instrument of plea bargaining, referred to in literature as consensual, whereas the criminal procedure and judiciary model that applies it is referred to as the consensual model. The authors write about the consensual impact on the development of criminal procedure from the position of criminal procedure legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking into account the reasons the modified form of the Anglo-American plea bargaining was introduced into the domestic legal system in 2003. In relation to that, its strengths and weaknesses are examined through the key issues of balancing between the demands for the efficiency of the criminal judiciary and the protection of basic human rights. Mainly presented are the research results through the continued sustainability of plea bargaining in practice (although overshadowed by a continuous decline in the number of cases over the years of research) and the efficiency and effectiveness of this instrument