VII CHAPTER SEVEN
PUNISHMENT
Article 41
Types of Punishment
(1) The following punishments may be imposed on perpetrators of criminal offences who are criminally
responsible:
a) Imprisonment;
b) Fine.
(2) Imprisonment may be imposed only as principal punishment.
(3) A fine may be imposed both as a principal and as an accessory punishment.
(4) If both punishments are prescribed for a criminal offence, only one of them may be imposed as a
principal punishment.
(5) For criminal offences motivated by greed, a fine may be imposed as an accessory punishment even when
that is not specifically prescribed by the law or in cases where the law prescribes that the perpetrator shall be
punished by imprisonment or a fine, and the court decides to impose the punishment of imprisonment as the
principal punishment.
Article 42
The Purpose of Punishment
The purpose of punishment is:
a) To express the community’s condemnation of a perpetrated criminal offence;
b) To deter the perpetrator from perpetrating criminal offences in the future;
c) To deter others from perpetrating criminal offences; and
d) To increase the consciousness of citizens of the danger of criminal offences and of the fairness of
punishing perpetrators.
Article 43
Imprisonment
(1) Imprisonment may not be shorter than thirty days or longer than twenty years.
(2) For the gravest forms of serious criminal offences perpetrated with intent, imprisonment for a term of
twenty to forty-five years may be prescribed (long-term imprisonment).
(3) Long-term imprisonment may never be prescribed as the sole principal punishment for a particular
criminal offence.
(4) Long-term imprisonment may not be imposed on a perpetrator who has not reached twenty-one years of
age at the time of perpetrating the criminal offence.
(5) Under the conditions prescribed by Chapter X (Rules Relating to Educational Recommendations,
Educational Measures and Punishing Juveniles) of this Code, juvenile imprisonment may be imposed.
Juvenile imprisonment is in its purpose, nature, duration and manner of execution a special punishment of
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