MITIGATING FACTORS AND CRIMINAL defences IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS)

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the criminal legislation of the Slovak Republic in the area of consideration of the mitigating factors and criminal defences. Existing research provides an overall exploration of mitigation of sentence institution in accordance with the existing edition of the Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic, announced on 20 May 2005 and entered into force on 1 January 2006 and the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, enacted on 22 September 1994 and entered into force from 1 April 1995, including the issues on determining the punishment for the criminal offences committed in a state of mental disorder as well as insanity and diminished sanity, for uncomplete offences and the criminal complicity, including criminal defences, institutions on the voluntary refusal from the commission of an offence. Pursuant to the results of the conducted comparative analysis, similar and different sides of existing criminal laws have been clarified, and decisions on the concluded analysis and final conclusion on the implementation of Slovak Republic’s criminal law norms to the criminal law of the Republic of Uzbekistan have been provided.