Viski László: Road traffic offenders and crime policy (Budapest, 1982)

LÁSZLÓ VISKI ROAD TRAFFIC OFFENDERS AND CRIME POLICY Shortly after the first noisy, evil-smelling and slow motor cars appeared on the road, the problems caused by them became a special concern for legislation and law. The tempes­tuously rapid development of motoring exerted a tremendous impact on human society, and law responded in its slow but reliable way. Traffic criminal law became one of the means of influencing the social phenomena related to road traffic, prescribing restrictions and threatening violators by sanctions. The author is concerned mainly with the present problems of traffic criminal law and he tries to find legal solutions to decrease the number of traffic offences. The question is raised on the possibility of influencing the behaviour of drivers by means of penal law, namely sanctions. In this connexion the traits of human personality playing a role in traffic violations are examined, the moral issues related to traffic offences, the social attitudes toward such violations are analysed and the nature of the unlawfulness of traffic criminal acts are explored. Furthermore, the author discusses the issue of decriminalization from the aspects of traffic law and the conditions of the expedient application of penal sanctions for traffic offences. He pays special attention to the problems of imprisonment and also to sanctions he proposes to be applied specifi-

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