TY - JOUR AU - Sulejmanoski, Doan PY - 2020/12/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - THE CRIMINAL ACT - COERCION – COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MACEDONIAN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION AND THE SHARIA TREATMENT JF - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Social Changes in the Global World" JA - SCGW VL - 1 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.46763/SCGW201-30215s UR - https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/scgw/article/view/4003 SP - 215-224 AB - The criminal acts are an unbreakable piece of our everyday life, the effective handlingof criminal acts today are one of the main indicators to ascertain the degree of developmentand the success of a country. Depending on the type of the legal systems, different countrieshave different state reactions.The subject of detailed elaboration in this paper will be the criminal act of coercionprovided in the special part of the Criminal Code of the Republic of North Macedonia inthe chapter which encompasses criminal acts against the freedoms and rights of the man andthe 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 theArabic countries, that is, countries with Islamic rule.The freedom of decision-making and the freedom of acting are essential freedomsestablished 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 elaboratethis type of crime by comparing the treatment of the same crime in the Sharia legal system, asystem which in our country has not been sufficiently analyzed and experienced. ER -