scholarly journals Subjective side of "Concealment of a crime" (Article 396 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and its impact on qualifications

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 243-260
Author(s):  
Tetiana Mykolaivna Hud
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Factual Error ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Subjective Side

The article considers the current problems that arise during the qualification "Concealment of a crime" (Article 397 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), in particular on the basis of the subjective side. The problem of the correct qualification of a criminal offense depends on the correct establishment of all the features of the criminal offense, among which the greatest complexity are the features of the subjective side. To do this, it is necessary to disclose the content and characteristics of the subjective side, its mandatory features, and to determine the significance of the characteristics of the subjective side of the crime for the criminal assessment of the offense. The subjective side is a mandatory element of any criminal offense. Among its features are guilt, motive and purpose of the criminal offense. The analysis of judicial practice, scientific works gives the chance to develop scientific knowledge concerning the outlined question and to draw the following conclusions. The subjective side of concealment of a crime (Article 396 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) is characterized by guilt exclusively in the form of direct intent. The qualification of concealment of a crime can be significantly affected by a person's legal or factual error. Motive and purpose are optional features of the composition of concealment of the crime, they do not affect the qualification of the perpetrator, but must be considered by the court in sentencing. At the same time, the selfish motive of concealment of a crime has a great social danger, but fixing it in the tort under investigation is considered inexpedient, as it may complicate the distinction between concealment of a crime committed for selfish motives and acquisition, receipt, storage or sale of criminally obtained property. The significance of the subjective side and its features for qualification is determined. The paper reveals the features of subjective signs of concealment of a crime on the basis of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Examples from judicial practice are analyzed.

scholarly journals Efficiency of Judiciary and Penalty Policy of Courts in Serbia for Criminal Work Violence in Family // Efikasnost pravosuđa i kaznena politika sudova u Srbiji za krivično delo nasilje u porodici

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Dragan Jovašević
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Family

Under the influence of international standards, in the first place of the Istanbul Convention, in Serbia at the beginning of this century, there were several statutory texts such as the Criminal Law (2002), the Family Law (2005), the Criminal Code (2005) and the Law on the Prevention of Violence in the family (2016) determined the concept, elements, characteristics and forms of manifestation of the criminal act of domestic violence, as well as a system of preventive and punitive measures in order to prevent and suppress it. However, there is a greater or lesser disparity between legislative solutions and judicial practice, which also affects the efficiency of the functioning of the judiciary, and therefore the rule of law in general. To a large extent they contribute to the results of the policy of criminal prosecution, ie the criminal policy of the courts for the criminal offense of domestic violence in the last decade in Serbia whose results are presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Criminal-legal meaning of driving under the influence in the acts stipulated by Article 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
V. Myslyvyi
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Operation Rules ◽  
Driving While Impaired ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Vehicle Operation ◽  
Objective Side ◽  
Determining Factor

The article deals with issues of combatting criminal offenses related to violations of road safety and vehicle operation rules stipulated by Article 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The focus is on acts committed by persons who were in a state of alcohol, drugs or other intoxication. Based on research and analysis of current national judicial practice the author has revealed the presence of contradictions in court judgments of different instances where provided opposite criminal legal assessment consisting of a criminal offense under Article 286 of the CC of Ukraine, the following factors as driving while impaired by alcohol, drugs and other intoxication. The essence of such an assessment, as shown by a certain part of the verdicts, is that some courts do not consider the state of intoxication of a person driving a vehicle as a sign of the objective side of this criminal offense, and therefore do not see it as one of the reasons acts as a determining factor of these criminal offenses. The research paper contains a critical analysis of this approach in judicial practice and provides arguments for its unreasonableness, as driving under the influence as a cause of accidents in transport is considered to be universally recognized. However to avoid contradictions in judicial practice and to reach efficiency impact of criminal legaltools in combating the above mentioned criminal offense the author has proposed that Article 286 of the CC of Ukraine should stipulate an aggravating circumstances such as the commitment of a criminal offense by a person being in a state of intoxication

scholarly journals REPEATING AND RECURRENCE OF INTENTIONAL MURDER UNDER AGGRESSIVE CIRCUMSTANCES

2020 ◽  
pp. 352-361
Author(s):  
М. О. Василенко
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Separate Study ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Proceeding ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Special Part ◽  
The Subject

In the article, the author conducted a study of recurrence and recurrence as forms of multiplicity of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances. The relevance of this work is that this issue has not been the subject of a separate study among modern scholars of criminal law. In the work the author found that the recurrence of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances, it is necessary to distinguish from a criminal offense under paragraph 13 of Part 2 of Article. 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (premeditated murder committed by a person who previously committed premeditated murder, except for murder under Articles 116-118 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), which is considered a qualifying (aggravating sign) premeditated murder. After all, in the case of premeditated murder by a person who has previously committed premeditated murder, with the exception of murder provided for in Articles 116-118 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, a single crime is necessarily meant. The author also emphasizes that the recurrence of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances is available only if the person has previously been convicted of premeditated murder, but the conviction has not yet been removed and not expunged. Or when a person has committed premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances provided by the same part of the article of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine two or more times, and all episodes are considered in one criminal proceeding. In addition, the paper found that recurrence and recidivism, as forms of multiplicity of premeditated murders under aggravating circumstances, are not mutually exclusive and can be used by the court as a whole. It is concluded that in judicial practice there are many cases when courts do not clarify the issue of expungement or removal of a criminal record when imposing a penalty for repeated intentional homicides in aggravating circumstances. Therefore, the solution of this issue, in our opinion, needs legislative consolidation. After all, the recurrence of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances is available only if the person has previously been convicted of premeditated murder, but the conviction has not yet been removed and not expunged. Or when a person has committed premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances provided by the same part of the article of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine two or more times, and all episodes are considered in one criminal proceeding.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of qualification of criminal offenses against movement safety and transport operation: a review of judicial practice.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
Vasyl Berezniak
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Decisive Evidence ◽  
Act Assessment

The article reviews some court decisions, which highlight the key features of the assessment of criminal offenses against traffic safety and transport operation. Typical situations of committing criminal offenses of this type with the analysis of difficulties of qualification and further bringing a person to criminal responsibility are studied. In addition, attention is paid to the differentiation of legal liability, where the means of committing an offense or the subject is a vehicle, as well as highlighted key aspects related to the definition, type and nature of the act. Assessment of criminal offenses against traffic safety and transport operation under art. 286 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine should be based not only on the rules of substantive law, ie the law of Ukraine on criminal liability. Within the framework of criminal proceedings, the employee-practitioner is guided by the rules of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, which provides for the possibility of changing the assessment of a criminal offense, taking into account the available facts and circumstances. Regarding the existence of certain regulations governing the specifics of assessment and further pre-trial investigation into the commission of a criminal offense against traffic safety and transport operation, today the national justice system has formed judicial practice on this issue. However, it requires some generalization and identification of key points in the qualification of the investigated criminal offenses or further criminal proceedings. The decisive evidence in criminal proceedings concerning criminal offenses against traffic safety and transport operation is the experts’ conclusions from various types of examinations, which are appointed in these proceedings. In particular, auto-technical, auto-commodity, transport-trasological expert studies, which establish important circumstances for establishing the suspect’se guilt or innocence.

scholarly journals Theoretical aspects of establishment of forms and types of guilt in criminal offenses against land resources of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-207
Author(s):  
A. Shulha
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Special Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objective Side ◽  
Subjective Side

The article reveals the theoretical aspects of establishing the forms and types of guilt in criminal offenses against land resources of Ukraine, as well as the problems of the combined form of guilt. The work is devoted to finding an answer to the following main question – what forms of guilt are characteristic of criminal offenses against land resources of Ukraine. Taking into account the achievements of the science of criminal law and law enforcement practice, it is concluded that the forms and types of guilt depend on the construction of the objective side of the criminal offense. As the considered criminal offenses are characterized by material structure, guilt of the subject should be established both concerning socially dangerous act, and its socially dangerous consequences. In fact, the criminal offense under investigation is mainly characterized by a combined form of guilt – intent to commit a socially dangerous act (including in violation of special safety rules) and negligence of the consequences in the form of harm to life and health or the environment. This form of guilt in criminal offenses against land resources means a different combination of intellectual and volitional elements of different types and forms of guilt in one offense. It is stated that the problems associated with this form of guilt are not fully resolved today and require independent thorough research. The peculiarity of the combined form of guilt in qualified criminal offenses against land resources of Ukraine is that the attitude to qualified consequences is always careless, otherwise the responsibility must come under the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code, which contain rules on liability for encroachment on life, health, relations property, for the normal functioning of enterprises, institutions and organizations, including relations in the field of protection, rational use and reproduction of other objects of the natural environment, and the environment as a whole. It is stated that the main theoretical discussion revolves around terminology, i. e. the names of one phenomenon of the subjective side of a criminal offense – different mental attitudes to socially dangerous acts and their consequences in the form of intent and negligence.

scholarly journals Serious Consequences Caused by the Crime as an Aggravating Circumstance

2020 ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Viktor ZAKHARCHUK
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Significant Strength ◽  
Additional Qualification ◽  
Objective Side

The judicial practice of sentencing is analyzed in the case when a criminal offense has serious consequences that are outside the objective side of a certain socially dangerous act. Given the evaluative nature of this circumstance and the lack of legislative explanation of its content, there are typical mistakes that courts make in classifying the serious consequences of the crime as an aggravating circumstance. The order of sentencing in the case when the death of the victim was caused by a criminal offense, property damage in large or especially large amounts, etc. was investigated. The procedure for distinguishing serious consequences as an aggravating circumstance and as a mandatory feature of the objective side of the relevant criminal offense is analyzed. It is established that in some cases the task of a serious criminal offense requires additional qualification under other articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The article proposes the criteria with serious consequences of the crime should be considered as an aggravating circumstance. It is established that the grave consequences caused by the crime as an aggravating circumstance do not form a new basis for criminal liability, as the court imposes punishment within the sanction of the article. Also, when the court decides the issue of criminal responsibility of the perpetrator, the signs of the composition of the criminal offense will be crucial, and not the presence of aggravating circumstances. After all, the court must impose a penalty within the limits provided by the sanction of the article containing the elements of a particular offense. It is argued that the main feature that distinguishes serious consequences from other criminal offenses and from other aggravating circumstances is the significance of these circumstances, i.e. the significant strength of influence compared to other circumstances that characterize the severity of the crime and the perpetrator. Recognition of certain consequences as grave and classifying them as aggravating circumstances belongs to the court, which must thoroughly examine the evidence of the occurrence of such consequences and make a final decision.

CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEGALIZATION OF CRIMINAL INCOME: TO THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT OF CRIMINAL INFRINGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Yu. S. ZHARIKOV ◽  
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MAHIR BAYRAM OGLU AHMEDOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Subject

The article focuses on the characteristics of the subject of crimes under Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code. Based on the analysis of applicable international, domestic and foreign legislation, as well as materials of judicial practice, the author determines the essential features of property acquired by a person as a result of a crime.

Types of Criminal Acts

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Shesler ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
A Minor

The article examines criminal acts, with which the law associates certain criminal legal consequences. The aim of the article is to substantiate the identification of various criminal acts and show their specificity in comparison with crimes. The research is based on the domestic criminal legislation, materials of judicial practice and the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany. The research methods are: the method of comparative law, which allowed comparing the provisions about criminal offenses in the 1960 Criminal Code of the RSFSR and in the 1996 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Criminal Code of Germany; the method of document analysis, which made it possible to analyze the judicial practice and proposals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the introduction of provisions on criminal offences in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; the formal-logical method that made it possible to analyze the content of the norms of the Criminal Code about criminal acts. The article concludes that, in addition to crimes, criminal acts should include: a criminal offence, which entails criminal liability in the form of replacing punishment with a more severe one (fine, compulsory labor, correctional labor, restriction of freedom as the main type of punishment, forced labor) or criminal liability in the form of the cancellation of any type of probation (suspended sentence, parole, deferred sentence, deferred sentence for drug addicts); a minor act; socially dangerous behavior of persons who are not subjects of a crime due to their minor age or insanity; innocent infliction of harm. The article shows the specificity of a misdemeanour, consisting in the fact that this act is not socially dangerous, does not contain signs of a crime, violates the liability of the convicted person to be subject to limitations arising from the court-appointed punishment or type of probation (suspended sentence, parole, deferred sentence, deferred sentence for drug addicts). It is substantiated that a minor act should be referred to circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act due to the absence of public danger, an essential feature of a crime. It is argued that acts, provided for by the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, committed in a state of insanity and entailing compulsory medical measures, should not be subject to criminal law. The article criticizes the judicial practice of a broad interpretation of the commission of a crime by a group of persons, according to which it is not only a co-execution, but also any execution of the objective side of the crime by several persons, of which only one can be the perpetrator. It is argued that causing harm due to the non-compliance of the psychophysiological qualities of a person with the requirements of an extreme situation does not apply to innocent infliction of harm.

INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF THE SPHERE OF BLOCKCHAIN FUNCTIONING AGAINST CRIMINAL OFFENCES: LANDSCAPE, DYNAMICS AND PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
SONA MKRTCHIAN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Telecommunications Network ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The purpose of the research is to identify the most successful ideas and legal techniques used in international law regarding regulations of defense against criminal offences in the sphere of cybersecurity, as well as blockchain functioning and cryptocurrency turnover. Results. On the basis of the positive international experience in regulating the criminal legal protection of relations in the last-mentioned sphere, the following directions for improving Russian criminal legislation were formulated: 1) fixation of the fair limits of the criminal administrative liability for defendant in reliance on the level of public danger of his personality and his offences; 2) creation of the formally defined crimes against computer information; 3) criminalization of some actions that precede cybercrimes; 4) expansion in the number of the mentioning of the sign "by interfering in the functioning of the resources of the storing, processing or transmitting computer information or data telecommunications network" as an essential or aggravating elements of crimes, typically committed with the use of information technologies (for example, in the articles number 133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 146, 147, 163, 165, 240, 240.1, 241 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, etc.); 5) expansion in the number of the elements of crimes combined in the chapter 28 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in reliance on the modern criminal schemes and typical criminal situations in the world of information technology; 6) expansion of the effect of the article number 274.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on any criminal offense to the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation and inclusion of the additional aggravating elements in the text of this article.

Criminal-Legal Characteristics of Encroachment on the Health, Personal Integrity, Honor and Dignity of a Representative of the Authorities

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
N. Yu. Borzunova ◽  
O. S. Matorina ◽  
E. P. Letunova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The authors of the article consider the criminal- legal characteristics of crimes against representatives of the authorities, in particular, encroachment with the purpose of causing harm to the health, personal integrity, honor and dignity of a representative of the authorities. The definition of the term “representative of the authorities”is given. The main characteristics of a representative of the government are analyzed. Statistical data on the number of convictions and types of punishments in accordance with the provisions of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Articles 318, 319) are summarized. Examples of judicial practice are considered. The ways of improving the criminal legislation are proposed.

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