scholarly journals Crime of domestic violence (Article 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine): analysis of judicial practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
O. І. Zinsu

The scientific article is devoted to the analysis of judicial practice of the crime of domestic violence. The urgency of the topic is due to the need to develop Ukraine as a modern democratic state governed by the rule of law and further expand legal regulation in the field of prevention and combating domestic violence. Methodology. Methodological tools are selected in accordance with the purpose, objectives, object and subject of research. The methodological basis of the study are philosophical, general and special-scientific methods of cognition. The theoretical basis of the study were the prescriptions of regulations of current legislation of Ukraine and scientific works of domestic scientists on domestic violence. Taking into account the specifics and complexity of the chosen subject of research, interdisciplinary and complex approaches were used, which allowed to work out and interpret the results of empirical research. The generally accepted principles of scientific knowledge are applied, in particular, the principle of determinism, the principle of conformity, the principle of subsidiarity. The methods, techniques, principles used made it possible to identify, distinguish, distinguish and prolong the relationship of part and whole, single and total selected sample, emphasizing the dialectical unity and difference between the properties, relationships and aspects of the subject. The empirical basis of the study is the information obtained from the analysis of case law, namely: acts of criminal law (court verdicts), the period of adoption from 01.01.2020 to 01.01.2021, the decisions of which are placed in the Unified State Register of Judgments of Ukraine. In the course of the research the concept, legal consequences and composition of the crime of Article 126-1 were revealed and characterized. Domestic violence of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The variability of structural units of criminal-legal interaction of the offender-victim with the indication of the family-legal status of the participants in the crime of domestic violence is emphasized. Attention is paid to fragments of legal reality and to certain orientation units of lawful and wrongful behavior. The influence of genetic and environmental factors on the formation of the behavior of participants in deep conflict domestic violence is noted. Attention is paid to the commission of crimes based on personal hostility. Also, the interpretation of the sample data revealed that a significant number of crimes of domestic violence were committed by the perpetrator (suspect / accused) in a state of intoxication or under the influence of psychoactive substances (alcoholic beverages), which in turn indicates the problem of interdependent, addictive behaviors, psychologic emotional imbalance. Thus, the modular interrelationships of the participants in the deep conflict in the field of domestic violence, taking the form of a criminal act, are determined by a set of interconnected, interdependent factors of biological and social nature. This gives grounds to argue about the need to improve measures to prevent and correct deviant behavior in society. Based on the results of the study, conclusions and recommendations were formed regarding the improvement of social and legal influence in the field of prevention and counteraction to domestic violence. Among other things, it is expedient to modernize social policy, form, develop the institution of "family", "general family", as well as the development and implementation of targeted comprehensive programs for the prevention of domestic violence, legal education, structured according to psychological age, hierarchy of activities, neoplasms of consciousness and personality. The general conditions of such an approach are the successful acquisition of knowledge and skills of self-regulation of behavior, as well as the formation of motivational and demanding sphere of personality of the right direction. The obtained results can be used: in research work —  for further research of legal, psychological specifics and structure of domestic violence; in law-making  — to improve the legal regulation of the system of prevention, counteraction to domestic violence; —  law enforcement activities  — in the implementation of state policy in the field of prevention, combating domestic violence; in the educational process  — in the preparation of lectures, seminars, practical classes; in legal and educational activities — to improve the modular guidelines of socio-legal behavior of the individual, aimed at raising the level of legal awareness, legal culture; as well as for all other professionals who deal with domestic violence.

Author(s):  
Екатерина Викторовна Глебова

Актуальность темы научной статьи обусловлена тем, что каждый гражданин Российской Федерации независимо от его социального статуса обладает правом на образование. Однако отдельные категории граждан, в частности, осужденные лица, не могут воспользоваться данным правом по причине наличия у них особого юридического статуса. Беспрепятственный доступ осужденных к образовательному процессу оказывает положительное влияние на социальную безопасность и защищенность каждого отдельного гражданина, так как от уровня их образованности напрямую зависит степень их исправления. В данный момент на территории нашей страны наблюдается большая вовлеченность всех слоев населения (включая осужденных) в сферу образовательных услуг как на возмездной, так и на безвозмездной основах. Профессиональное образование и профессиональное обучение как очень важный и необходимый элемент в отечественной пенитенциарной системе регулируется различными источниками права, относящимися и к системе уголовно-исполнительного законодательства, и к системе образовательного законодательства РФ. Целями правового регулирования отношений в сфере образования являются установление государственных гарантий, механизмов реализации прав и свобод человека в указанной сфере, а также защита прав и интересов участников отношений в сфере образования. Problem statement of the scientific article is due to the fact that every citizen of the Russian Federation, regardless of his social status has the right to education. However, some categories of citizens cannot exercise this right due to their special legal status, in particular, we will talk about convicted persons. Unimpeded access of this category of citizens to the educational process has a positive impact on the social safety and security of each individual, since the level of education of convicted persons directly affects the degree of their correction. At the moment on the territory of our country there is a great involvement of all segments of the population (including convicts) to the sphere of educational services free or for a fee. Vocational education and training as a very important and necessary element in the domestic penitentiary system is regulated by various sources of law relating to both the system of penal legislation and the system of educational legislation of the Russian Federation. The objectives of legal regulation of relations in the field of education are the establishment of state guarantees, mechanisms for the implementation of human rights and freedoms in education, as well as the protection of the rights and interests of participants of relations in the educational field.


Author(s):  
Nadiia Milovska

he article is devoted to determining the concept, role and significance of judicial practice in the legal regulation of insurance contractual relations, the establishment of its characteristic features and its correlation with other sources of legal regulation of the relevant relations. It has been established that the legal regulation of insurance contractual relations represents a state-dominant influence on such relations by a combination of legal means by which specific entities (the insurer and the insured) influence the legal relationship in the insurance industry by establishing specific contractual conditions in order to consolidate relations between them in order to streamline them in accordance with the needs of society as a whole and specific entities in particular. Legal regulation of insurance contractual relations is carried out using various legal forms that differ in the level and manner of their consolidation. In the system of sources of legal regulation of direct contractual relations on insurance, the following are distinguished: sources of normative (general) regulation (normative legal act, legal custom, judicial precedent, standard contract, general principles of law) and sources of individual regulation (specific insurance contract, the contents of which constitute the totality conditions determined at the discretion of the parties and agreed by them). In addition, on the basis of state-power nature and belonging to a certain type of social regulation, the sources of legal regulation of contractual insurance relations are: a) substantial, formal sources of law (institutional sources), which coincides with the form of law as a way of expressing the rules of conduct that are contained in the rules of law (multilevel regulatory legal acts in the field of insurance); b) the totality of social regulators (extra-legal sources), which are characterized by direct or indirect recognition by their state of regulators of insurance relations, which are constituted by the customs of business turnover, moral standards; c) judicial practice, which is characterized by a combination of institutional, non-legal sources and contractual self-regulation. It is noted that judicial practice is the result of judicial regulation, affects the practice of law enforcement, the actual formation of insurance relations in society, changes in insurance legislation and occupies an important place in social regulation. Key words: judicial practice, legal regulation, insurance contractual relations, sources of legal regulation, non-legal sources, social regulators.


Author(s):  
Dragan Jovašević

Under the influence of international standards, in the first place of the Istanbul Convention, in Serbia at the beginning of this century, there were several statutory texts such as the Criminal Law (2002), the Family Law (2005), the Criminal Code (2005) and the Law on the Prevention of Violence in the family (2016) determined the concept, elements, characteristics and forms of manifestation of the criminal act of domestic violence, as well as a system of preventive and punitive measures in order to prevent and suppress it. However, there is a greater or lesser disparity between legislative solutions and judicial practice, which also affects the efficiency of the functioning of the judiciary, and therefore the rule of law in general. To a large extent they contribute to the results of the policy of criminal prosecution, ie the criminal policy of the courts for the criminal offense of domestic violence in the last decade in Serbia whose results are presented in this paper.


10.12737/8128 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Поповская ◽  
M. Popovskaya

The article is based on the results of research work of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation “Improving the regulation of labor and the organization of new approaches to the organization of labour processes and the remuneration of certain categories of employees in higher education”, fi nanced by budget funds for State job in 2014. The article analyzes the legal regulation of improving remuneration of support staff , including from the standpoint of personnel management system, assessment of the role and importance of this category of workers working in the educational process; discusses possible approaches to remuneration of support staff to meet the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation, including the policy objectives for improving the system of remuneration in the budgetary organizations, as set out in the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of 26.11.2012, № 2190«On Approval of the gradual improvement of the system wages in the state (municipal) institutions for 2012–2018». The article also provides an analysis of the main problems in the existing institutions of higher education in pay systems, off ers a practical solution for the formation conditions of remuneration of support staff and the positioning of functional processes, which employ this category of personnel in connection with the performance of tasks to ensure the increase the quality of the educational process in the organization of higher education.


Author(s):  
Slipachyk Slipachyk

The scientific article focuses on the analysis of a sentence of life imprisonment without a realistic prospect of release in Ukraine as a violation of the “right to hope” in the context of the human dignity category. The study provides an overview of approaches to the definition of human dignity in national legal doctrine and practice, a historical and legal analysis of the origins of legal regulation of the idea of ​​respect for human dignity in international legal acts, and analyses the constitutional stages of the evolution of this concept as a matter of international law. The author has reviewed the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on this issue and studied the reasons of the Court on setting standards for acceptable treatment of a person through the lenses of human dignity and the inadmissibility of inhuman and degrading offences. Taking into account these standards, a critical assessment has been carried out, in particular, of the judicial practice of the Federal Republic of Germany on the application to a prisoner of such a type of punishment as preventive detention with indefinite duration. Emphasis has been given to the national judicial practice in cases of possible releasing life-sentenced prisoners in the conclusions of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court and the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on this issue. Based on the results of the study, a set of measures, including amending the legislation to bring it in line with the requirements of European human rights standards to protect human dignity and ensure the “right to hope” has been offered.


Author(s):  
YU.M. Plish

Domestic criminal law is being in constant dynamics, so it means that the norms of the current legislation are being improved, new, previously unknown, criminal-legal categories are being introduced, recommendations of in¬ternational institutions are taken into account, etc. Not an exception in this process is chapter XIII-1 of the General part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which regulates restrictive measures (these provisions came into force on January 11, 2019). From the moment of the regulation of restrictive measures in the Criminal Code of Ukraine, they have acquired the status of criminal-legal measures. Restrictive measures have a specific purpose - to protect the victim from a person who has committed a socially dangerous act, to protect against committing a socially danger¬ous act in relation to the victim in the future, to minimize the interaction between the person, who is in a dangerous state, and the victim, if such has the significant risks.This scientific article analyzes the conditions of application of restrictive measures in criminal law, in particular, it is determined that the concept of «crime related to domestic violence» is broader than the concept of «domestic violence» in Article 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and can be used not only in the commission of this crime, but also in other socially dangerous acts that have signs of domestic violence; some considerations regarding the improvement of the grounds for the application of restrictive measures are highlighted; the correlation between the requirements of international acts and current provisions on restrictive measures is considered.A detailed analysis of the types of restrictive measures that are in the Criminal Code of Ukraine was made. The need for some legislative changes and additions is argued, this concerns the wording of the names of types of restric¬tive measures; new concepts that should be enshrined at the legislative level; meaningful content of such varieties. The conclusion was made that the regulation of restrictive measures in the Criminal Code of Ukraine is a positive step, but due to the novelty of this legal category there is a need for their partial editing and changes.


Temida ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Radmila Sucevic

Family Law passed in 1998 introduced the term domestic violence for the very first time in Croatian legal system. Article 118 of this Code contains explicit ban of if violent behavior of a spouse or other adult family member. Violation of this ban is, according to the article 362, a misdemeanor, and the sanction is up to 30 days of imprisonment. Article 118 is placed under section of parental care, subsection is Protection of rights and welfare of a child and minors. Entering article regarding family violence into this section and connecting violent behavior only to a spouse or other adult family member is dangerous, because of possibility for restrictive interpretation of this article in practice and giving protection only to children. However, in practice, although the implementation of this law started late, in June 1999, police mostly intervene and protect victims of domestic violence in all cases, no matter if it is a family with or without children. From January 1st 2001 violent behavior in a family is provided as criminal offence (article 215 of the Criminal Code). Sanction for this offence is from three months up to three years of imprisonment.


Author(s):  
Tamara Marić

Criminal protection against domestic violence in the Republika Srpska was established by the enactment of the Criminal Code in 2000, when domestic violence was, for the first time, legally defined as socially unacceptable behavior with a criminal sanction. A few years later, in 2005 to be precise, the first Law on Protection from Domestic Violence was adopted, the provisions of which took the basic form of the criminal offense of domestic or family violence from the Criminal Code and defined it as a misdemeanor. In order to prosecute perpetrators of violence faster and more efficiently, as well as faster and better protection of victims of domestic violence, a new Law on Protection from Domestic Violence was passed in 2012, which is also the most important legal regulation in this area in Republika Srpska. The said law underwent several amendments, and as such was in force until May 1 of the current year, when the Law on Amendments to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence, which was adopted by the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska on The sixth regular session held in September 2019, which prescribes new legal solutions, which will be discussed in the continuation of the paper.


Author(s):  
Dmytro Musaelyan ◽  
Yuliya Kuntsevych

The scientific article determines the current state of legal regulation of the circulation of cold steel in Ukraine and also analyzes the latest bills to regulate this issue. A study of the social climate and opinions of Ukrainian citizens on the free possession of cold steel is conducted. The study identified the concept of «cold steel» and its qualifications. The analysis of normative documents in which the classification of types of cold steel and methods of forensic research are considered is carried out. The main criteria the category of cold steel are defined. The articles summarize the lack of certain means of cold steel, as well as the methodology itself, which determines which weapon belongs to the category of cold steel, and this language presupposes the presence of certain technical parameters. This situation creates a huge space for abuse both by experts, which can distort the results of the examination and by unscrupulous sellers, which can lead to a false phenomenon of possession of completely legal weapons and as a consequence may lead to criminal prosecution of Ukrainian citizens for part 2 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine «Illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives». To resolve this controversial issue, our own methodology and criteria for classifying certain means as «cold steel» as well as decriminalization of liability for carrying a cold weapon are proposed, because the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine contains certain articles that already provide for liability for improper acquisition and storage of cold steel. Thus, today in Ukraine it is urgent to adopt a law on arms, which will clearly define such concepts as cold steel, research methods that will be simple and clear to anyone, whether he is a citizen of Ukraine or not, because many abuses by police officers who demand bribes in connection with this issue or take away items of historical or simply material value. There is no legal regulation of civil armaments in Ukraine, and therefore it cannot categorically raise the issue of criminal liability for committing certain actions in the absence of legal regulation of public relations in response to these issues. Criminological research has long and convincingly proven that punishment has never and nowhere been among the main deterrents to committing crimes. The existence of absurdly strict laws has never had a positive effect on the crime situation in the country.


Author(s):  
Iryna Khomyshyn

Purpose. The purpose of the study is to analyze the prospects for the legal regulation of simplified proceedings in administrative cases by the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine. Method. The research is based on the complex analysis and generalization of the available practical, scientific and theoretical material and the formation of the corresponding conclusions and offers. The following methods of scientific cognition were used in the research: the dialectical, system-structural, terminological, system-functional, historical, normative-dogmatic, way of generalization. Results. The study examines the historical aspect of the development of legislation on simplified proceedings, including administrative cases. It is established that a particular category of cases can be considered in the framework of simplified proceedings without an oral hearing by examining the evidence provided in writing. Simplified proceedings are differentiated proceedings containing several exceptions to the administrative, procedural form. Simplified proceedings in administrative cases are distinguished not depending on the special categories of administrative matters but particular circumstances and applying a simpler trial procedure in the cases specified by law. The current legislation on applying the rules on the simplified system of justice requires improvement to ensure the effective implementation of procedural guarantees of participants, compliance with the principles of legality and fairness in the consideration and resolution of administrative cases. Scientific novelty. It is established that the formation of simplified proceedings aims to ensure the effective implementation of procedural guarantees of the participants, compliance with the principles of legality and fairness in the consideration and resolution of administrative cases. The practical significance lies in the possibility of using materials in legislative activity, in judicial practice, in the educational process in the study of administrative proceedings.


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