Miodrag Majić is a Serbian

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, judge and author. He is the judge of the Court of Appeals in

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, and the author of numerous books, legal commentaries and articles. Majić is known as a devoted opponent of

penal populism Penal populism is a media driven political process whereby politicians compete with each other to impose tougher prison sentences on offenders based on a perception that crime is out of control. It tends to manifest in the run up to elections when ...

in Serbia, which caused various Serbian politicians (most notably

Maja Gojković Maja Gojković ( sr-Cyrl, Маја Гојковић; born 22 May 1963) is a Serbian politician serving as deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of culture and information since 2020. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), she ...

) to lead

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s against him in 2019. In 2019, Majic authored a bestselling

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novel titled ''Deca zla'' (еng. Children of evil) which combines realistic depictions of

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in Serbia with themes of

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and

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Biography

Miodrag Majić was born on 17 November 1969 in

, then the capital of

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...

. He graduated from

University of Belgrade Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educatio ...

in 1995 and defended his doctorate in 2008. He speaks Serbian, English and Russian languages. Majić is the father of two sons.

Notable works

* ''Primena međunarodnog krivičnog prava u nacionalnim pravnim sistemima'', Službeni glasnik Srbije, 2009 * ''Nature, Importance and limits of finding the Truth in criminal proceedings'', Majić, Ilić, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2013 * ''Вештина писања првостепене кривичне пресуде'', Službeni glasnik Srbije, 2015 * ''Deca zla'', Vulkan, 2019

References

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