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Modernization of criminal legislation in the context of criminalization of responsibility for social and domestic violence
- Authors: Litovchenko T.A.1, Makarov A.V.2,3
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Affiliations:
- Far Eastern Branch, Russian State University of Justice
- East Siberian Branch, Russian State University of Justice
- Trans-Baykal State University
- Issue: No 10 (2023)
- Pages: 93-103
- Section: Criminal law studies
- Submitted: 25.01.2026
- Accepted: 25.01.2026
- Published: 10.10.2023
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2072-909X/article/view/375706
- ID: 375706
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Abstract
The present study is devoted to the lack of proper legal regulation in the Russian criminal law of responsibility for violence in family relationships. The amendments and additions made in 2016–2017 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation regarding responsibility for inflicting beatings or other violent acts that caused physical pain, but did not entail the consequences specified in Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in particular, the decriminalization of beatings against loved ones, are currently questionable and a number of questions. The article analyzes the proposals of researchers on the problem of domestic violence, as well as their own conclusions on the issue of legal regulation of domestic violence. The authors recommended criminalizing domestic violence as a separate crime.
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Tatiana A. Litovchenko
Far Eastern Branch, Russian State University of Justice
Author for correspondence.
Email: Anokhina-tatyana@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-6516-0100
Lecturer of the Department
Russian Federation, KhabarovskAndrey V. Makarov
East Siberian Branch, Russian State University of Justice; Trans-Baykal State University
Email: Jus-chita@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4270-1641
Doctor of Science (Law), Professor of the Department of the East Siberian Branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Trans-Baikal State University
Russian Federation, Irkutsk; ChitaReferences
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