جريمة عقوق الوالدين في التشريع الجنائي العراقي

Abstract

The act of disobeying one's parents was stipulated to be criminalized by amending the text of Article Three hundred and eighty-four of of the Iraqi Penal Code effective under Law No. Ten for the year two thousand and twenty-four, and thus it has not been sufficiently researched due to the recentness of its text, which created a desire to take up that matter in order to determine the nature of this crime that has taken over. Criminal protection is the cornerstone of the social structure of any normal and healthy society, and a statement has been made the definition of the act of disobedience, which is "the expression or action by which a parent harms his child, except in polytheism or disobedience, unless the parent is obstinate," and from a reading of the legal text of the crime, it is clear that it lacks the accuracy expected in the legislation, as it became clear that it included more than one area that was not successful. The legislator granted criminal protection to the rights he hoped to protect, and the matter did not stop at the objective aspect r included the formal aspect of it through what the legislator established in terms of how to initiate the criminal lawsuit related to that crime and its expiration. He took an almost mixed path in this regard with regard to making the victim's concession a reason for the expiration of the lawsuit, and therefore a number of proposals were proposed, which we found to be It is sufficient to avoid the shortcomings of the punitive text