The Crime of Infringement upon a Wife’s Financial Resources under Algerian Legislation
Keywords:
Marital, Violence, Coercion, Wife’s Property, Penal Code, Independence of Financial Patrimony, PardonAbstract
Methods of coercion or intimidation aimed at compelling a wife to dispose of her property or financial resources constitute one of the most prominent forms of contemporary marital violence, as they represent a flagrant violation of the principle of the independence of financial patrimony, which signifies the wife’s absolute freedom to manage and dispose of her assets and property. In order to protect this right, the Algerian legislator intervened through the provisions of Law No. 15-19 amending and supplementing the Penal Code, introducing mechanisms to protect the wife from this form of economic violence. This paper seeks, on the one hand, to elucidate the constituent elements of the offense of coercion or intimidation to dispose of the wife’s property or financial resources, and, on the other hand, to examine the repression of this offense.
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