of November 10, 2008 No. 453-Z
About bases of activities for prevention of offenses
Accepted by the House of Representatives on October 21, 2008
Approved by Council of the Republic on October 22, 2008
This Law establishes legal and organizational basis of activities for prevention of offenses and fixes the main forms of participation of state bodies (organizations), other organizations and citizens in implementation of these activities.
In this Law the following main terms and their determinations are applied:
vagrancy - the social phenomenon generated by material neediness of citizens of the Republic of Belarus, foreign citizens and stateless persons (further - citizens) and absence of housing (shelter) at them, expressed in permanent change of the residence (the place of stay) (further - the residence), evasion from labor activity, existence due to begging or other accidental sources;
individual prevention of offenses - the activities performed by subjects of prevention of offenses, representatives according to this Law and other legal acts of the Republic of Belarus, for rendering the adjusting impact on the citizens inclined to delinquent behavior and (or) made offenses (further - the citizens inclined to delinquent behavior), for the purpose of non-admission of making of offenses by them;
the citizen without certain residence - the citizen who lost socially useful and family relations, not taking residences, evading from labor activity, including engaged in vagrancy and (or) begging and (or) existing at the expense of other accidental sources;
violence in family - the intentional actions of physical, psychological, sexual orientation of one family member in relation to other family member violating it the rights, freedoms, legitimate interests and causing it physical and (or) mental sufferings;
general prevention of offenses - the activities performed by subjects of prevention of offenses on prevention and suppression of offenses, identification, the analysis, the prevention and elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses, and also identification, accounting, legal education of the citizens inclined to delinquent behavior;
begging - the social phenomenon expressed in systematic begging by the citizen of money or other property at other citizens;
offense - illegal guilty action (failure to act) for which making the criminal or administrative responsibility is provided;
prevention of offenses - system of social, legal and other measures of general and individual prevention of the offenses accepted by state bodies (organizations), other organizations and citizens according to this Law and other acts of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus;
preventive action - the action relating to measures of general or individual prevention of offenses and also the action performed according to this Law and other acts of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus the organizations which are not subjects of prevention of offenses, citizens for the purpose of identification, the analysis, the prevention and elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses.
The legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the field of prevention of offenses is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus and includes this Law, state programs on fight against crime approved by presidential decrees of the Republic of Belarus, the regional programs for fight against crime which are annually approved by decisions regional, Minsk city executive committees and other acts of the legislation, including the international agreements of the Republic of Belarus.
If the international treaty of the Republic of Belarus establishes other rules, than those which contain in this Law then are applied rules of this international treaty.
Activities for prevention of offenses are based on the principles:
legality;
humanity;
democratism;
planned character and systemacity;
protection and observance of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens;
individual approach to citizens concerning whom there are bases for taking measures of general and (or) individual prevention of offenses;
coordination of actions and operational interaction of subjects of prevention of offenses, other state bodies (organizations), other organizations;
state support of participation of citizens and their associations in activities for prevention of offenses;
responsibility of officials of subjects of prevention of offenses, other organizations for violation of the law of the Republic of Belarus in the field of prevention of offenses.
Subjects of prevention of offenses are:
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The document ceased to be valid since April 16, 2014 according to article 38 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of January 4, 2014 No. 122-Z