Prospects for the Application of Conciliation Procedures in Criminal Cases of Domestic Violence

The paper is devoted to the admissibility of using conciliation procedures in criminal cases of domestic violence. Analyzing the development of the modern standard of response to acts of domestic violence, the author comes to the following conclusion. Being based on the idea of using full-scale mechanisms of criminal repression against offenders and the paradigm of punishment, it has a number of shortcomings, in particular, it does not take into account the needs of victims, the dynamics of family conflicts, the close nature of the relationships of their participants, which determines the possible desire of the parties, including the injured party, to maintain the relationship. In view of the above, it is proposed to actively use conciliation procedures in cases of domestic violence if, as a result of a risk assessment, it is determined that this does not pose a threat to the life and health of victims and meets their needs. It is advisable to use the mechanism of criminal mediation, which has proven itself in a number of foreign jurisdictions (for example, in France, Poland, Finland, Austria). The paper proposes an acceptable format of mediation as an alternative or supplement to classical criminal prosecution, based on indirect mediation and carried out by a mediator independent from the state, who has undergone special training, in which the approval and implementation of the agreement is controlled by the court and authorized bodies.

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