HOOLIGANISM: LAW ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS

Abstract

This article examines the qualification problems that are faced today during the investigation and preliminary investigation of criminal offenses, specific aspects of the proof process and aspects of legal regulation of these issues, the identity of the victim, his rights, and other issues related to the subject. The article also contains a dispositional commentary on the crime of hooliganism, which provides a legal interpretation of the existing problems in the application of certain proposals as well as suggestions that their legal definition should be reflected in legislation. In accordance with Article 13 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 8, 2023, DRU-860, “On anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts,” the proposal “expressed in demonstrative disregard for generally recognized rules of conduct,” which is also an aggravating circumstance of the crime of hooliganism, was noted as an indefinite proposal of discretionary powers in practice, as a legal solution to the problem, a scientific and legal definition of this proposal has been developed, which should be fixed in the explanatory part of Section 8 of the Criminal Code. The research used methods such as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, and comparative legal analysis. During the research, advanced foreign experience, scientific and theoretical views, and investigative and judicial practice were studied, as a result of which proposals and recommendations were developed for making appropriate amendments and additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and other legislative and subordinate acts.