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PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

Shevchuk T.I. 1
1 Lviv State University of Internal Affairs
A review of the international legal framework for the prevention of criminal domestic violence. According to the analysis of international experience on the use of such a framework, the article seeks to identify key legislative trends in the field. The analysis showed that at the international level, there are many legal instruments and tools that help in the formation, as national legislation and its implementation mechanisms. A common system of measures on legal aid for human rights constitute a national protection mechanisms provided by the domestic law of states and international mechanisms for the protection of the universal or regional character. In the foreign legal literature in the development of bills related to violent crime, makes suggestions to strengthen the punishment for these crimes. And, in particular, this could be achieved by addition of aggravating circumstances, the aggravating circumstances in the general part of criminal law, as well as aggravating circumstances in specific articles of the special part.