A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO OTHER INTERESTS AS A CRITERION FOR SUBSTANTIAL HARM AT CRIMINAL LAW

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (85) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Jurijs Lomonovskis
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Basic Composition ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Additional Object ◽  
Court Practice

The aim of the article “A significant threat to other interests as a criterion for substantial harm at criminal law” is to examine the problems of understanding the concept of “substantial harm” in criminal law; to analyse whether the “significant threat to other interests” component of substantial harm is properly understood in practice. The lack of understanding of the concept determines the topicality of the article. To reach the goal of the article, such tasks are solved: 1. to consider the historical development of a law framework of “substantial harm”; 2. to get acquainted with the types of substantial harm in criminal law; 3. to compare the court practice with the basic legal doctrine; 4. to make a statement about the content of the concept of “significant threat to other interests” both in the framework of basic and qualifying criminal offenses. The article consists of 5 parts: introduction, understanding concept of other interests protected by law, connection of other interests protected by law with the direct object of the criminal offense, threat of other interests protected by law as qualifying attribute, conclusions. The novelty of the article is related to the lack of research into substantial harm problems in criminal law. The conclusions of the article are about court practice does not correspond to the basic of legal doctrine. In the conclusion of the article, the author expresses the thesis for basic composition of criminal offense: substantially harmed interests are those in the direct object of the criminal offense; as well as those included in additional objects, if specifically designated by the legislator. Regarding the determination of interests in qualifying composition of a criminal offense, the author of the article expresses the following http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/acj.v4i85.3673 thesis: substantial harm as a characteristic of the composition of a qualified criminal offense indicates the threat of an additional object of a criminal offense.

scholarly journals ASAS PERTANGGUNGJAWABAN TERHADAP KORPORASI YANG MELAKUKAN TINDAK PIDANA PERBANKAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Nurul Sasmita
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Sense Of Justice

The aims of this thesis is (1) to investigate andexplain the positions of corporations in conducting banking criminalacts, and (2) also to identify and explain the criminal responsibility ofbank as the perpetrator in banking criminal acts. This research isnormative, conceptual approach and the approach of legislationregarding responsibility principles of the corporation for banking criminalacts.Corporations have chances in committing a crime, especially bankingcriminal acts just by making a corporation recognized as a subject ofexistence apart from human beings, so that in practice there is a criminal offense committed by the corporation. The corporation takespart in the occurrence of a crime. In practice, the determination of acriminal offenseconducted by the corporation is known through two things: first, the works of the committee: they should be constructed as theyuse the principles of the liability of corporation’s criminal actions. Principally, stakeholders and officials or employees of a corporationhave the responsibility for its owncorporate actions; second, errors in the corporation,as long as it is in the science of criminal law, the overview of criminals is still oftenassociated with physical actions performed by the manufacturers(fysieke dader) but this can be overcome by the study of  "functionalactors" (functioneledader). We can prove that the action of committeeor employees of the corporation in the society act traffic concerned,the acts of the corporationerrors in the forms (dolus or culpa) must be regarded ascorporate faults.Towards the corporations that make banking criminal acts we canhave their responsibility with the principles of strict liability. Onthe principle of strict liability, it is known that the responsibility ison them even if they do not have the required mens rea. The substanceof this principle is that the perpetrator has been punished if theperpetrator may have provable conduct prohibited by the criminalprovision (actus reus) withoutsee the inner attitude. In this conception, the corporation is consideredhaving responsibility forphysical acts performed by management. A corporation convicted in principles isintended to develop a sense of justice in the corporation who commitsbanking criminal acts as stated in Article 46 paragraph (2), sothat if a corporation committed criminal acts, we can also have theresponsibility of the corporation. Keywords:Banking Criminal Acts, Corporation, ResponsibilityMenurut peraturan perundang-udangan, korporasi sebagai subyek hukum dapat dikenakan pidana sebagaimana manusia melakuka tindak pidana. Pada praktiknya, penentuan tindak pidana yang dilakukan oleh korporasi diketahui melalui dua hal, yaitu pertama tentang perbuatan pengurus yang harus dikonstruksikan sebagai perbuatan korporasimaka digunakanlah asas pertanggungjawaban pidana. Pada asas tersebut stakeholder maupun pengurus atau pegawai suatu korporasi, bertanggungjawab terhadap perbuatan korporasi itu sendiri. dan kedua tentang kesalahan pada korporasi, memang selama ini dalam ilmu hukum pidana gambaran tentang pelaku tindak pidana masih sering dikaitkan dengan perbuatan yang secara fisik dilakukan oleh pembuat (fysieke dader) namun hal ini dapat diatasi dengan ajaran “pelaku fungsional” (functionele dader). Kita dapat membuktikan bahwa perbuatan pengurus atau pegawai korporasi itu dalam lalu lintas bermasyarakat berlaku sebagai perbuatan korporasi yang bersangkutan maka kesalahan dalam bentuk (dolus atau culpa) mereka harus dianggap sebagai kesalahan korporasi. Terhadap korporasi yang melakukan tindak pidana perbankan dapat dimintai pertanggungjawaban pidana dengan menggunakan asas strict liability.Pada asas strict liability diketahui bahwa pembebanan tanggung jawab pidana kepada pelakunya sekalipun pelakunya tidak memiliki mens rea yang dipersyaratkan. Adapun substansi dari asas ini adalah pelaku sudah dapat dijatuhi pidana apabila pelaku telah dapat dibuktikan melakukan perbuatan yang dilarang oleh ketentuan pidana (actus reus) tanpa melihat sikap batinnya. Dalam konsepsi ini, korporasi dianggap bertanggung jawab atas perbuatan yang secara fisik dilakukan oleh pengurus (direksi dan komisaris). Dipidananya korporasi pada asas ini dimaksudkan dapat menimbulkan rasa keadilan pada korporasi yang melakukan tindak pidana perbankan, sehingga apabila korporasi melakukan tindak pidana maka korporasi juga dapat dimintai pertanggungjawaban.Kata kunci: Korporasi, Pertanggungjawaban, Tindak Pidana Perbankan

scholarly journals CRIMINAL LAW CONSIDERATIONS (Ratio Decidendi)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Prayitno Iman Santosa
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ratio Decidendi

Judicial practice in Indonesia, judging from the decisions of criminal cases, generally judges give legal considerations only to prove the elements of a criminal offense. In contrast, the determination of the crime is not objectively considered, and most are merely considerations of incriminating and mitigating matters. On the other hand, the judge has absolute authority in imposing a crime; the judge's freedom is guaranteed by law. The supreme power of judges who are used freely without objective measures has the potential to produce corrupt decisions and injustices. Criminal objectives must be aligned with legal goals, namely to realize penalties that guarantee legal certainty, justice, and expediency. Ideally, good sentences reflect the three purposes of the law.

scholarly journals Vai Krimināllikuma norādes par noziedzīgo nodarījumu vainas formām ir pietiekoši skaidras?

2021 ◽  
pp. 501-509
Author(s):  
Māris Leja ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Mental Element ◽  
The Law

The article deals with the flaws of the Criminal Law in determination of the particular form of mental element (mens rea) which is required for the specific criminal offense. Taking into account that the majority of legal provisions does not contain such indications, one of the elements of criminal offense is not described by the law. Such legislator`s approach raises doubts about the compliance of the Criminal Law with the principle of legal certainty. The article also criticizes opinions expressed in legal theory that attempt to fill the gaps allowed by the legislator, as well as offers amendments to the Criminal Law aiming to improve its coherence.

scholarly journals Consent in criminal offences against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of a person

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Tetiana ZAVHORODNIA
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Voluntary Consent

Introduction. Combating sexual violence still remains one of the most important issues arisen in criminal law study. It should be noted that Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is still not ratified by Ukraine, which shall facilitate quality of criminal law concerning criminal offences against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of a person. The purpose of the paper is to define meaning and content of consent in criminal offenses against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of a person provided for in Section IV of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Results. The paper establishes that lack of consent is a constructive sign of rape (article 152 of the Criminal Code), sexual violence (article 153 of the Criminal Code) and coercion to have sexual intercourse (article 154 of the Criminal Code). The ways of solving arisen problems during the qualification of situations in which a person mistakenly believes that consent was given, as well as when consent was not given explicitly, have been determined. It is recommended to clarify the content of "voluntary consent" by indicating in the note to Article 152 of the Criminal Code, actions which shall not indicate voluntariness of consent. The paper notes that using the collocation "without voluntary consent" is superfluous in Articles 153 and 154 of the Criminal Code, since "coercion" and "violence" also indicate absence of voluntary consent. It has been established that consent is a distinguishing feature of a criminal offense provided for in Article 155 of the Criminal Code from Articles 152 and 153 of the Criminal Code, thus sexual intercourse with a person from 14 to 16 years with her consent indicates the commission of a criminal offense under Art. 155 of the Criminal Code. It is proposed to supplement Article 155 of the Criminal Code with the clause “in the absence of signs of criminal offenses under Art. 152 and art. 153 of the Criminal Code”. Conclusion. The paper provides that consent shall be both constructive and distinguishing feature of criminal offences against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability. Several problems of consent in such crimes are defined as well as ways of their solution.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SEPARATE (UNITARY) CRIMINAL OFFENCES

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (80) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Uldis Krastiņš
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses

The article analyses the aspects of the understanding of separate (unitary) criminal offense. Under Section 23 of the Criminal Law, separate (unitary) criminal offenses can be subdivided into simple and complex unitary criminal offenses. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of complex criminal offenses, such as constituent criminal offenses, continuous and continuing criminal offences. The criteria for the delimitation of complex offenses from conceptual aggregation and factual aggregation of criminal offenses are also considered.

scholarly journals THE ISSUE ON DETERMINATION OF TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PEOPLE, COMMITTING CRIMINAL OFFENSES RELATED TO THE FORGERY OF EXCISABLE GOODS, AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CRIMINALISTIC CHARACTERISTICS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-327
Author(s):  
Ayupova Zauresh ◽  
Begaliyev Yernar ◽  
Uspanov Zholdybay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Product Recommendations ◽  
Characteristic Features

In the article «The issue on determination of typological features of people, committing criminal offenses related to the forgery of excisable goods, as an element of the criminalistic characteristics» prepared by doctoral student Ayupova Z.N.; Professor of the Department of Special Legal Disciplines, Doctor of juridical Science Begaliev E.N; Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, candidate of juridical Sciences, Professor UspanovZh.T. The main purpose of this article is to identify the most characteristic features of an intruder's personality and to formulate recommendations aimed at improving the process of investigating criminal offenses related to falsification of excise goods. The article deals with the issue of theoretical interpretation of the concept of "criminalistic characterization of crimes" and "typology of personality" as its element. The analysis of the reference paper is given regarding the study of the typology of persons committing criminal offenses; as well as the problems that arise in determining the subject of the crime and the ways to solve them. The types of persons committing criminal offenses connected with forgery of excisable products as exogenous and endogenous types of intruders are investigated; classified by the object of encroachment, the nature of criminal acts, the degree of public danger. The concepts of socially-adoptive, socially-disadaptive type of personality of persons who commit this category of a criminal offense are disclosed. The structure of the personality of the intruder who deals in the falsification of excisable goods has been compiled and examined through socio-demographic, criminally-legal, socially significant physiological features and moral properties. The analysis of methods for establishing a suspect person is given, the main types of malefactors and their functions are identified in the production of a surrogate excise product. Recommendations for persons conducting investigations into criminal cases related to forgery of excise goods are developed.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF THE UKRAINIAN LEGAL DOCTRINE CONCERNING QUALIFICATION OF THE CRIMINAL OFFENSES COMMITTED BY THE ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GROUPS IN CONTEXT OF AMENDING CHANGES TO LEGISLATION ON CRIMINAL LAW

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
D. Ptaschenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Criminal Groups

The Article 1 of the Constitution of Ukraine regulates: Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, legal state. One of the destabilizing factors in building the rule of law is the commission of criminal offenses by organized criminal groups. Due to the changes in the criminal legislation during the last two years, the criminal law norms have undergone significant changes, which directly or indirectly affect the qualification of criminal offenses committed by organized criminal groups. Given the changes in criminal law, the qualification of criminal offenses committed by organized criminal groups requires uniform systemic approaches, primarily at the level of judicial law enforcement practice. The formation of the Ukrainian legal doctrine on the qualification of criminal offenses committed by organized criminal groups is one of the significant auxiliary guidelines in the formation of such law enforcement practice. To achieve this goal and the defined objectives, the following methods were applied in the study: logical and normative – for the analysis of criminal law on the qualification of criminal offenses committed by organized criminal groups; system analysis – when considering judicial law enforcement practice (first of all, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Ukraine) of the qualification of criminal offenses committed by organized criminal groups. The legislation strengthens criminal liability for criminal offenses by organized criminal groups, in particular, as evidenced by the amendments to the Criminal Code under the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Liability for Crimes Committed by the Criminal Community" dated by the 4th of June 2020. Before the formation of new approaches to the doctrine of criminal law and law enforcement judicial practice on the qualification of criminal offenses (crimes), a specific part of which is provided by h.ch. 1-5 art. 255 of the Criminal Code, the indirect reference is the provision of the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Ukraine of December 23, 2005 №12 "On the practice of consideration by courts of criminal cases on crimes committed by stable criminal groups." Keywords: criminal offenses, criminal community, criminal organization, organized group, creation of a criminal community, leadership of a criminal community, organized criminal groups.

CONSIDERING SENTENCE FOR PREDICATE OFFENSE

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
PREDRAG VULEVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Previous Measurement ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Made In

The process of sentencing means individualization and customization types and extent of sentencing the crime and its perpetrator. In that way, the purpose of criminal law, which consists in the last defense of the society from crime, is best realized. The whole process of keeping the pre-trial and criminal proceedings has the ultimate goal of sentencing the defendant. Furthermore, the procedure of execution of the sentence is based on its previous measurement and adjustment of the personality of the convicted person. Hence, the case law abounds with examples in which an inadequately measured sentence has called into question the criminal procedure itself and the defensive function of criminal law in the society. The issue of sentencing in modern criminal law has been resolved in accordance with modern trends in the field of punishing perpetrators of criminal offenses. Therefore, we can distinguish between regular sentencing, which means that the perpetrator goes to court for one criminal offense. However, in court practice, it is not uncommon for the perpetrator to go to court due to multiple predicate offenses made in ideal or real time. In this case, special sentencing rules apply, which take into account the fact that several criminal offenses are tried at the same time. In criminal doctrine, there are several modalities of sentencing for predicate offenses. Their number varied in different time intervals. Our legislator has incorporated into its norms three ways of sentencing for predicate offenses. These are the systems: absorptions, asperations, and cumulations. In this paper, we will point out the advantages, disadvantages and applicability of each of these systems that sentencing predicate offenses.

scholarly journals The Court for Crown Cases Reserved, 1848–1908

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-288
Author(s):  
Phil Handler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Trial Judge ◽  
Old Bailey ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common ◽  
Convicted Felons

Convicted felons at the Old Bailey and on assize in nineteenth-century England had no right of appeal. They had either to submit to their fate or, if they had the means, petition the Crown for a pardon. The legal avenues for redress were limited. A writ of error would lie to a superior court for legal errors that appeared on the face of the record but by the nineteenth century this was seldom used. More significantly, it was open for the trial judge to reserve questions of law for the informal and private consideration of all the common law judges. In their illuminating studies of this practice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, James Oldham and Randall McGowen elucidate the ways in which the judiciary used reserved cases to develop legal doctrine and to shape the operation of criminal justice. The trend toward increased formalization of procedure that they identify, culminated in 1848, when Parliament created the Court for Crown Cases Reserved (CCCR). The new court adopted the existing method of reserving cases, but was a court of record that sat and gave judgment in public. It became the highest judicial forum for the determination of questions of criminal law until 1908, when it was superseded by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

scholarly journals Critical analysis of the object of the crime as an element of the corpus delicti

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Sergey Veklenko ◽  
Igor' Semchenkov
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Social System ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
External Objects ◽  
Internal Goods ◽  
Constituent Elements

The article provides evidence of the groundlessness of recognizing the object of a crime as an element of the corpus delicti. The substantiation of this conclusion in relation to such types of criminal offenses as preparation for a crime, attempted crime, incitement to a crime, aiding in a crime and the act of the organizer of a criminal offense is carried out by demonstrating that they do not even come into contact with the object of the crime and don’t have a direct impact on it. The proof that the object of the crime is not an integral part of the criminal act, expressed in causing harm, is carried out in two directions - in relation to crimes that harm the internal benefits of a person, for example, his life or health, and in relation to crimes that harm external benefits of people recognized as objects of criminal law protection, in particular, such as public order, public safety, etc. It is shown that the object of a crime in the form of a person’s internal goods cannot be a constituent part of a crime because these benefits are inside of their owner, and he himself is an element of some social group formation (social system), but not an element of a crime committed against him. The argument that external objects of a crime are not an integral part of a crime is based on the results of a detailed analysis of the process of causing harm. The results of such an analysis, carried out using the categories of the part and the whole, demonstrate the fundamental impossibility of isolating any constituent elements (parts) in the process of causing harm. In this process, it is possible to single out only certain of its phases and stages, but not its component parts.

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