[ LES ATOUTS DU SYSTEME DE REPRESSION DES INFRACTIONS DE VIOLENCES SEXUELLES AU REGARD DE LA VICTIMOLOGIE EN REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO ]
Volume 33, Issue 1, October 2017, Pages 94–109
Jean Paul KISEMBO DJOZA1
1 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNIKIS, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article seeks to know whether the Congolese system of repression of sexual violence has got some strengths. Indeed, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a post-conflict country that has suffered too much from the pangs of war, whose monstrosities are more noticeable in sexual violence. These infringements are serious insofar as they run counter to the universally accepted value of sexual freedom. Congolese criminal law is no exception to other criminal systems of comparative law. In this sense, Act No. 06/018 of 20 July 2006 modifying and supplementing the Criminal Code, has made a great deal of fundamental innovations (requalifying rape, including other offenses of sexual violence with many more serious penalties). The same applies to formal innovations (such as the victim 's right to initiate proceedings, the victim' s right to compensation, mandatory private session, irrelevance of criminal immunities in the event of sexual violence, prohibition of transactional fines, miscellaneous expert reports..). Finally, Act No. 09/001 of 10 January 2009 on the protection of children has criminalized certain other sexual assaults, mainly against a child. Such are the strengths of the Congolese penal system in the repression of sexual violence.
Author Keywords: Strengths, law enforcement, sexual violence infringements, Victimology, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Volume 33, Issue 1, October 2017, Pages 94–109
Jean Paul KISEMBO DJOZA1
1 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNIKIS, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article seeks to know whether the Congolese system of repression of sexual violence has got some strengths. Indeed, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a post-conflict country that has suffered too much from the pangs of war, whose monstrosities are more noticeable in sexual violence. These infringements are serious insofar as they run counter to the universally accepted value of sexual freedom. Congolese criminal law is no exception to other criminal systems of comparative law. In this sense, Act No. 06/018 of 20 July 2006 modifying and supplementing the Criminal Code, has made a great deal of fundamental innovations (requalifying rape, including other offenses of sexual violence with many more serious penalties). The same applies to formal innovations (such as the victim 's right to initiate proceedings, the victim' s right to compensation, mandatory private session, irrelevance of criminal immunities in the event of sexual violence, prohibition of transactional fines, miscellaneous expert reports..). Finally, Act No. 09/001 of 10 January 2009 on the protection of children has criminalized certain other sexual assaults, mainly against a child. Such are the strengths of the Congolese penal system in the repression of sexual violence.
Author Keywords: Strengths, law enforcement, sexual violence infringements, Victimology, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Abstract: (french)
La problématique de cet article est de savoir si le système congolais de répression des violences sexuelles comporte des atouts. En effet la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) est un pays post-conflit qui a trop souffert des affres de la guerre, dont les monstruosités résident davantage dans les violences sexuelles. Ces infractions sont graves pour autant qu’elles vont à l’encontre de la liberté sexuelle, valeur pourtant universellement admise. Le droit pénal congolais n’est pas en reste des autres systèmes pénaux de droit comparé. Dans ce sens, la loi n°06/018 du 20 juillet 2006 modifiant et complétant le code pénal, a beaucoup innové tant au fond (en requalifiant le viol, en y intégrant les autres infractions de violences sexuelles avec des peines beaucoup plus rigoureuses). Il en est de même des innovations de forme (tels que le droit de la victime à initier le procès, le droit de la victime à la réparation, le huis clos obligatoire, la non pertinence des immunités pénales en cas de violences sexuelles, l’interdiction d’amende transactionnelle, les expertises diverses..). Enfin la loi n° 09/001 du 10 janvier 2009 portant protection de l’enfant a incriminé certaines autres agressions sexuelles portées essentiellement contre un enfant. Tels sont les atouts que comporte le système pénal congolais dans la répression des violences sexuelles.
Author Keywords: Atouts, Système de répression, infractions de violences sexuelles, Victimologie, République démocratique du Congo.
How to Cite this Article
Jean Paul KISEMBO DJOZA, “THE STRENGTHS OF THE REPRESSION SYSTEM OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE INFRINGEMENTS UNDER VICTIMOLOGY IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 94–109, October 2017.
