Law Violations and Justice

INTRODUCTION

The changes that occurred after 1992-’93 as a result of the reforms which were carried had a positive impact on the country’s level of security as shown by a considerable improvement of the criminality and public order indicators.This tendency persists in the 1993-2001 period where, except for 1997, we notice a reduction of crime and an increase in the degree of its detection by the police. Similarly, in 2001 crime was 2.2 times or 55 percent lower compared to 1993, whereas crime investigation by the police for the given years was 7 percent higher.As a result of the process of institutional and law reforms and the increase in the international cooperation of the Albanian police with homologous institutions in the region and in the western countries, these last years have shown an improvement in the level of public safety, achievements in the war against organized crime and illegal trafficking, etc. The period 2000-2001, especially after the passing of the law on the control of sailing-craft, was marked by an intensified war of the police against human trafficking in which good results were achieved. In Vlore, Fier, Berat, Kavaje, Tirane and Gjirokaster alone 210 trafficking cases were identified, with 536 penally prosecuted authors and 18200 people delivered/rescued from trafficking networks. In 2001, the general criminality level also displayed a decline of 33.2 percent compared to 1997.

According to the statistical data and their graphical interpretation, it results that the last four years (1998-2001) manifest a gradual annual decline of the crime rate per 100,000 inhabitants. Thus, while the 1997 figure was 199 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, in 1998 it was 179 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants and the rate reached 128 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001. The rate of deliberate murders for the period at hand has also shown considerable decline. Thus, while in year 1997 there were 48.2 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, there were 17.9 such instances in 1998 and only 6.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001. The data on penal and civil lawsuits give us a general framework of the functioning of judicial justice according to the different levels of judgment.
In the 1993-2001 period penal cases constituted about 30 percent of the total of penal and civil cases revised from the three levels of the judiciary.In the civil field, year 2001 registered a total of 2924 divorce lawsuits, which were approximately equally placed by males and females (1472 by males and 1497 by females). These marriages ended in divorce in only 84 percent of the cases. Most cases refer to families with no children.

DATA SOURCES

Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Public Order