THE CASE OF DOCUMENT FORGERY OFFENSES

Document forgery offenses represent an assault, threat or danger to the legal traffic (law governed relations between different legal entities and individuals). Since documents are the means of such a traffic, it means that these offenses are taking actions towards both the documents and resources for legal and free flow of legal traffic. Precisely because of the importance of having documents in legal affairs, especially when establishing, changing or abolishing certain legal issues, and because of the fact that these documents are more and more used as an evidence, their counterfeiting represents danger and the illegality of such an extent and intensity that is necessary criminal sanctions to be used in order legal traffic entities to be protected against documents forgery and their usage in the legal affairs. According to previously mentioned facts we can see that the document itself is the object of doing criminal offenses of forgery (the Article 355–358 of the Criminal Code of Republic of Serbia). Taken into account the diversity of documents that appear in the daily legal affairs, there will be talking more about their division and differentiation of the types of documents.