PECULIARITIES OF LEGAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE UNDER MARTIAL LAW

Andrii FOMENKO, Volodymyr SHABLYSYI

FOMENKO A., SHABLYSYI V. (2022), PECULIARITIES OF LEGAL PROTECTION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE UNDER MARTIAL LAW, Scientific Bulletin of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, Special Issue №2, 16-23

DOI: 10.31733/2078-3566-2022-6-16-23

 

ABSTRACT. The article states that recent years have become the basis for increasing the level of criminalization of society, due to the eight-year aggression of Russia, which gained momentum with a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, as a result, there was a massive and systematic violation of fundamental human rights, which was usually a painful reaction of the public. Therefore, in accordance with the dynamic development of social, socio-political and state-legal reality, the question arose regarding the improvement of the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Legislation of Ukraine regarding domestic violence, taking into account the new experience for Ukraine.

The authors substantiated the expediency of considering the perpetration of domestic violence under martial law on the basis of modern trends in the development of legal reality, the security situation, as well as the assessment of these trends and the consequences of their use to counter gender-based violence in general.

It has been proven that, regardless of its manifestation and form, violence committed under martial law is interpreted as a situation that aggravates the sentence, and also gives the court the possibility of imposing a harsher punishment compared to peacetime. The court must take into account the circumstances aggravating the punishment, but it is not obliged to impose a punishment within the limits of the maximum punishment established by the relevant article.

Arguments are given in favor of the fact that in the future the norms of the current domestic legislation should be improved, namely restrictive measures should be considered as a separate means of ensuring criminal proceedings in a separate section of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which will outline the issue of domestic violence. As for the application of these norms, practice has shown that there are certain problems with the use of restrictive measures. Given their content, in practice they can only prevent the risk of unlawful influence on the victim, witnesses of the same criminal proceedings, the commission of another criminal offense or the continuation of a criminal offense. They do not foresee other risks, and therefore the effectiveness of applying in this way the importance of preventive measures in criminal proceedings is questioned.

Keywords: criminal offense, domestic violence, martial law, aggression, prevention of domestic violence.

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