THE CRIMINAL ACT – COERCION – COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MACEDONIAN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION AND THE SHARIA TREATMENT

Doan Sulejmanoski, LL.M. Director of the Vocational High School /Shaip Jusuf - Skopje

The criminal acts are an unbreakable piece of our everyday life, the effective handling of criminal acts today are one of the main indicators to ascertain the degree of development and the success of a country. Depending on the type of the legal systems, different countries have different state reactions.
The subject of detailed elaboration in this paper will be the criminal act of coercion provided in the special part of the Criminal Code of the Republic of North Macedonia in the chapter which encompasses criminal acts against the freedoms and rights of the man and the citizen in article 139, which will be compared and analyzed with the same criminal act, but provided and regulated within the sharia legal system, as a separate system present in the Arabic countries, that is, countries with Islamic rule.
The freedom of decision-making and the freedom of acting are essential freedoms established in international documents and elevated to a constitutional rank in our country. Given the trend of increasing violent behavior of individuals, it is very useful to elaborate this type of crime by comparing the treatment of the same crime in the Sharia legal system, a system which in our country has not been sufficiently analyzed and experienced.

Key terms: freedoms and rights of the man and the citizen, coercion, features, conditions, criminal sanction, sharia law.