A suspended sentence is criminal sanction that, instead of punishing, warns the perpetrator of the criminal offense that he is obliged to respect the legal order and not to commit criminal offenses in the future. By imposing it, the state temporarily waives punishment until it is convinced that it is unnecessary, that is, until the period of probation or verification expires. Suspended sentence was created in the middle of the 19th century in some states of the USA and in England, and was later accepted by the criminal legislation of European countries, including our criminal law. This led to the creation of two models of suspended sentence: Anglo-Saxon and Continental-European. The origin and development of suspended sentence is the result of the development of the idea of individualization of punishment, humanization of criminal law, recognition of the existence of petty crime and the justification of different treatment of such delinquency. The development of this institution in Croatian law can be observed through four historical stages, marked by the adoption of four important legal acts: the Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1935, the Criminal Code of 1951, the Basic Criminal Code of the Republic of Croatia and finally the Criminal Code of 1997. Suspended sentence consists of the imposed sentence, the probationary period during which the sentence is not served, and the offender's fulfillment of the obligations imposed by the court. The court is authorized to impose it on an offender who has been sentenced to a prison sentence of up to one year or to a fine when it judges that the offender will not commit criminal offenses in the future even without serving the sentence. A judge does not need consent for imposing that sentence. Thus, judicial sentencing comes to the fore. The 201 Criminal Law Act introduced the possibility of imposing a partial suspended sentence on an offender who was sentenced to a fine or imprisonment for a period of more than one and less than three years only for part of the sentence. The main obligation of a person sentenced to probation is not to commit a new crime during the probationary period. In addition to this obligation, the court is authorized to impose additional obligations on the convict, which may be special obligations and/or protective supervision. A suspended sentence can be revoked for three reasons: the commission of a new criminal offense during the probationary period, a previously committed criminal offense, and failure to fulfill certain obligations set by the court. In the Criminal Code, there are two types of revocation: mandatory (compulsory) revocation and optional (optional) revocation. Although it is one of the youngest institutes in criminal law, suspended sentences in Croatia today account for over 80% of all criminal sanctions imposed