LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of August 22, 2020 No. 259-VI

About prevention of offenses

This Law determines legal and organizational bases of system of prevention of offenses and establishes general rules of its functioning, the principles, the main directions, types of prevention of offenses and form of preventive impact.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

For the purposes of this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) offense - the crime or administrative offense representing illegal act (action, failure to act) attracting the criminal or administrative responsibility;

2) prevention of offenses - set of the measures of social, legal, organizational, information and other nature directed to identification and elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses and also rendering educational impact on persons for the purpose of non-admission of making of offenses or antisocial behavior;

3) system of prevention of offenses - set of subjects of prevention of offenses, persons participating in prevention of offenses, and the measures of prevention of offenses, and also bases of coordination of activities and monitoring taken by them in the field of prevention of offenses;

4) persons participating in prevention of offenses - citizens, the public associations and other organizations giving help (assistance) to subjects of prevention of offenses within implementation of the rights in the field of prevention of offenses according to this Law and other regulatory legal acts of Turkmenistan;

5) public associations and other organizations in the field of social servicing - the public associations and other organizations performing social servicing (provision of social, medico-social, social and psychological, social and pedagogical, social and legal and other social services) and participating in prevention of offenses;

6) antisocial behavior - the actions of physical person which are not involving administrative or criminal liability breaking the commonly accepted standards of behavior and morals, the rights and legitimate interests of other persons.

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