A Comparative Understanding of Criminal Liability Formation for Crimes Against Women in Uzbekistan and Cameroon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31207/ih.v10i2.289
Keywords: Crimes Against Women, Criminal Legislation, Domestic Violence, Health of Women, Subjects of Criminal Matters

Abstract

Women continue to be victims of violence and the violation of their human rights keep being in the increase as they experienced constant hatred on their status. This article analyzes liability for crimes against women under criminal legislations of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Cameroon by assessing the Criminal Codes rules in both countries in terms of identifying its distinctive features of legal regulation conditional to gender and family differences of subjects is provided. Expert study of criminal legislations related to crimes against women plays a facilitating role in identifying not only real scope of criminal law rules, but also determining if there is a gap in law, or legal regulation is insufficiently socially conditioned. Moreover, analysis of genesis of criminal standards on responsibility for crimes against women made it possible to trace changes in law in relation to such objects of criminal law protection as, for example, life, health, sexual freedom and sexual immunity, honor and dignity of woman, interests of family and its members.

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Author Biographies

Dilbar J. Suyunova, Tashkent State University of Law (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

Doctor of Science of Law. Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedural Law at Tashkent State University of Law (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

Yana Yu. Koniushenko, National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kiev, Ukraine)

Doctor of Law. Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Process of the National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kiev, Ukraine).

Nana Charles Nguindip, University of Dschang (Dschang, Cameroon)

Senior Lecturer in Law at Department of English Law of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Dschang (Dschang, Cameroon).

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Published
2021-12-14
How to Cite
Suyunova, D., Koniushenko, Y., & Nguindip, N. (2021). A Comparative Understanding of Criminal Liability Formation for Crimes Against Women in Uzbekistan and Cameroon. Ius Humani. Law Journal, 10(2), 129-148. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31207/ih.v10i2.289
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Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Ius Humani. Law Journal
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