The crime of abuse of a person living in a shared household - criminal and criminological aspects

The crime of abuse of a person living in a shared household - criminal and criminological aspects Abstract This thesis deals with the crime of abuse of a person living in a shared household from a criminological and criminal law perspective. The aim of the thesis is to highlight current approaches to the criminalization of domestic violence. In order to achieve this descriptive, analytical, and comparative methods are used. The introduction of the thesis focuses on domestic violence from a criminological perspective. Attention is drawn primarily on those criminological topics that have an impact on criminal law itself. The main part of the thesis deals with the crime of abuse of a person living in a shared household in terms of substantive criminal law. First, the constituent elements of criminal offence are analysed in detail in the context of long-established interpretation and current case law. This is followed by an analysis of the circumstances that order the application of higher penalties, which are specific to this crime in a certain way. Attention is also drawn to other constituent elements of criminal offence that may be fulfilled by the actions of a perpetrator of domestic violence and to the issue of the concurrence of these crimes with the crime of abuse of a person living in a shared...