Legislative reglamentation of criminal responsibility for domestic violence: challenges and ways to solve them

The article examines the criminal responsibility for domestic violence, based on the analysis of the concepts of “domestic violence”, “domestic crimes”, “family violence”, their relationship is clarified. The types of violence are highlighted, the author’s concept of crime in the family and household sphere is formulated, the legislative name of norm 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is proposed, as well as its final version, the expediency of refusing to indicate the goal in defining the concept of «torture» in the disposition of Art. 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the legislative definition of this concept. Based on a legal analysis of Art. 138 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation proposed the legislative formulation of Part 2, and also substantiated the expediency of excluding the method of committing a crime under Art. 156 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.