scholarly journals Comparison of The Turkish Penal Code About Sexual Abuse of Children to the Penal Codes of Germany, Italy and Sweden

Author(s):  
Ayten Püren DOĞANAY ◽  
Ahmet HİLAL
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2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-406
Author(s):  
Ivan Strenski

AbstractArticle 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a “colonial relic,” specifically of the French Mandate, 1920–1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-sex relations. I argue, instead, that Article 534 was the product of native religious, legal, and moral thinking among the Maronites, reinforced by the Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology taught in Lebanon by the Jesuit missions. Thomistic and post-Tridentine moral theology classified same-sex relations as worthy of condemnation as “unnatural acts”—the same language used in Article 534. Therefore, as a product of Lebanese political and religious sectarianism, Article 534 is a specific case of a congenial collaboration of Jesuit moral theology and a conservative Maronite ethical and legal koine.


2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-135
Author(s):  
Justyna Bieda

The convicts’ obligation to perform prison labour as an additional form of punishment beyond imprisonment appeared for the first time in the 16th century together with the creation of houses of correction. In the 19th century, statutory law pertaining to labour was regulated in many European penal codes. This concept was also included in the criminal legislation which was in force in the Kingdom of Poland, i.e. in the Penal Code (in forcesince 1818) and in the Code of Major and Correctional Punishments (since 1848). Initially, the work carried out by the prisoners in the Kingdom of Poland was primarily fiscal in nature. The purpose of the labour was for the prisoners to, at least partially, earn a living. However, the penitentiary concepts which began to emerge from the 1930s onwards also started to notice the educational and resocialization value of convict labour. At first, theprisoners were mainly engaged in public works. And later, after 1832, they were put to work in prison workshops and factories. Moreover, they performed services for the benefit of private individuals. The Penal Code obliged the prisoners to work in case of convicts placed in prisons and jails. The Code of Major and Correctional Punishments, which was in force since 1848, maintained the prison labour obligation of the convicts’ sentenced toimprisonment. This additional sanction was connected with the punishment of imprisonment in detention centres and it was also connected with being detained in workhouses or in houses of correction. People sentenced to lighter punishments and those temporarily deprived of liberty were free from penal labour.


2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 41-66
Author(s):  
Pilar Calvo Caballero

The study of the first liberal Penal Codes (Spanish from 1822/1848/1850 and Portuguese from 1852) shows that the Spanish and the Portuguese woman share the same legal frame, but for a few differences. This frame preserves the feminine pattern of behaviour established by the Old Regime Courts, subject to man’s authority and to marriage as a guarantee of social and family order, but with a change: man’s honor resting upon the woman is honesty, not any longer privileged (married and honest) but imposed (home angel) and punished (dishonest woman). Between applying mercy or an exemplary treatment to a woman, liberal law chooses the last. Woman is not the plural category of the Old Regime any more, but the dual category angel/dishonest, which brings about her fragilitas. This leads to equality among women and approach to men in most offenses, but for the glaring inequality with regard to honor. An exception: the Portuguese wife, protected against procuring, has the right to take vengeance on his husband for her honor, whereas the Spanish wife does not have that right. Keywords: Spanish Penal Code 1822/1848/1850. Portuguese Penal Code 1852. Woman. Fragilitas. Honesty.


Probacja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Monika Czechowska

The article concerns the crime of rape stipulated in art. 197 of the Criminal Code, or more precisely the definition of this phenomenon. The author analyzes the regulations penalizing this type of sexual abuse, in force both under Polish criminal law and under international law, in order to find the answer to the question whether the current provisions of the penal code comply with the convention standards and whether the definition of rape corresponds to the theory of sexual autonomy, according to which sex without voluntary, informed, and free of forced consent is rape.


2003 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-357
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Ghodsi

Legitimate defence was enacted in the Iranian Penal Code in 1991 and 1996 and covers defence of life, dignity, family, freedom and property of the person or another. Legitimate defence is differently addressed by Shiite and Sunnite jurists in Islamic literature. Attack and defence have their own conditions in the Iranian and Islamic Penal Codes. These conditions are evaluated and discussed in this article.


2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Berinzon ◽  
Ryan C. Briggs

AbstractColonial institutions are thought to be highly persistent, but measuring that persistence is difficult. Using a text analysis method that allows us to measure similarity between bodies of text, we examine the extent to which one formal institution – the penal code – has retained colonial language in seven West African countries. We find that the contemporary penal codes of most countries retain little colonial language. Additionally, we find that it is not meaningful to speak of institutional divergence across the unit of French West Africa, as there is wide variation in the legislative post-coloniality of individual countries. We present preliminary analyses explaining this variation and show that the amount of time that a colony spent under colonisation correlates with more persistent colonial institutions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-298
Author(s):  
E. V. Khrabrova ◽  
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D. A. Pavlenko ◽  

Educational work with convicts is a tool of correcting them, which is enshrined in the penal codes of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Currently there are various classifications of this work forms. Individual, group and mass forms of educational work with convicts are enshrined in the Penal Code of RF. The Belarusian legislator does not pursue the goal to regulate all forms and methods of its organization since this activity is of a pedagogical nature. Currently priority is given to individual forms of educational work with juvenile convicts in correctional institutions. At the same time group forms have enormous potential. The result of a correctly conducted work with a group of pupils may be a team characterized by the unity of the organization and psychological community. The need to use group forms of educational work is also due to the age characteristics of convicts. The article discusses various forms of educational work used in Russia and Belarus, focuses on specific forms such as meetings of collective councils and their sections, the preparation of collective and individual labor commitments, contests and meetings of the best workers and exemplary behavior, rationalizers and inventors, etc.


Author(s):  
Paul H. Robinson ◽  
Markus D. Dubber

If there can be said to be an "American criminal code," the Model Penal Code is it. Nonetheless, there remains an enormous diversity among the fifty-two American penal codes, including some that have never adopted a modern code format or structure. Yet, even within the minority of states without a modern code, the Model Penal Code has great influence, as courts regularly rely upon it to fashion the law that the state's criminal code fails to provide. In this essay we provide a brief introduction to this historic document, its origins, and its content.


Significance A wave of allegations of sexual abuse of vulnerable women by powerful men has extended into the Greek theatre. It follows the revelation by Sofia Bekatorou, a prominent Greek Olympic gold medallist in sailing, that a senior official of the Hellenic Sailing Federation had sexually abused her when she was 21 years old. Impacts The Penal Code article on rape and sexual assault, and legislation against workplace sexual harassment may now be implemented properly. The mismanaged and potentially dangerous working environment in sports and theatre could deter younger talents from careers in such fields. If backlogs in the courts delay the clearing up of investigations, it could inflict political damage on the government departments involved.


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