torture

The article analyzes the sphere of application for Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Based on the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the distinction between the concepts of torture and inhuman treatment has been researched. Attention is drawn to the absolute character of Article 3 of the Convention, regardless of circumstances or situations.

This paper examines the historical development of the Ukrainian lands torture and connection with the criminal procedure law, and the importance of torture by various sources.

This paper examines the regulation of responsibility for crimes sign composed of Violence in the history of criminal law; investigated trends in the use of guidelines on violence in the monuments of criminal law; in historical perspective defined the notion of violence.

This paper examines the international experience of regulation of criminal responsibility for crimes sign composed of Violence; it turns out that penal importance is the concept of “violence” under the laws of the adjacent former Soviet and those countries which have a decisive influence on foreign law; in turn set its content and scope.