A New Dataset is published
Back in 2015, Ukraine’s parliament introduced a provision into country’s criminal code dealing with country’s historical past. Article 436-1 has criminalized production, distribution, and public usage of symbols of Soviet communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes in Ukraine. A new dataset collates information about all verdicts of the Ukrainian courts sentencing for committing a crime of Article 436-1 so far.
The dataset contains a coded data matrix of verdicts by Ukraine’s courts applying Article 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (n=183) between 2015 and 2024. A separate file features a codebook with the rules of calibration of legal data. The dataset explores the parameters of prosecutorial and judicial decision-making in criminal processes, application of ECHR law, types of punishments used in criminal cases, geographic distribution of the verdicts as well as some other legal characteristics of the verdicts. The dataset was compiled by Dr Andrii Nekoliak (T.M.C. Asser Institute-University of Amsterdam) during his post-doctoral research with the MEMOCRACY consortium, sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation. The findings of the database are also used in the extensive MEMOCRACY Study Report on Memory Laws in Russia and Ukraine available online. To access the dataset and accompanying materials, please, contact Dr Nekoliak, and explain the purpose of the legal data use.
Suggested citation: Andrii Nekoliak (2024): Verdicts by Ukraine’s Courts applying Article 436-1 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code (2015-2023) – How the production, distribution and public usage of communist and national-socialist symbols is punished in Ukraine?, v. 1.0, Discuss Data
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