scholarly journals Understanding Exemption from Criminal Liability through the Prism of Social Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 320-328
Author(s):  
Valerii ROMANIUK
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Revolutionary Period

In the article the author investigates features of philosophical and legal preconditions of exemption from criminal liability. The author defines that the problems of criminal liability and exemption from it is one of the central and at the same time the most complex institutions of criminal law. The author argues that the pre-revolutionary period was characterized by a significant number of circumstances that exempted from criminal liability, due to the consequences of political, economic and social transformations in the world, the rise of human will and importance, its capabilities for the state. The author emphasizes that when resorting to the term «criminal liability», the domestic legislator means, first of all, the imposition on the person who committed the crime, the burden of coercive measures of punitive content. The author argues that it is expedient to consider criminal liability in a positive sense, as the obligation of a criminally responsible entity not to commit violations of the prohibitions established by the Criminal Code. That is, criminal liability, in the first place, should serve as a warning aimed at the person who intends to commit the crime. The author argues that if a person did not have the conditions for normal life and development for social reasons, then society and the state have no right to blame him only because they initially undertook to give him such conditions. The author argues that in a state governed by the rule of law, when addressing the implementation of criminal liability, special attention is paid to the intersectoral institution of exemption from criminal liability as a compromise in restoring social justice and encouraging law-abiding behavior. The author states that the unconditional nature of exemption from criminal liability undermines the essence of the institution of criminal liability in general, as exemption from criminal liability is carried out on non-rehabilitative grounds. In this regard, the released person who has committed a crime must, in order to maintain a balance of social justice, feel in some way the influence of the state in order to realize his guilt and really take the path of correction. The author proposes to apply such restrictions to the social balance of such a person as strengthening the supervision of law enforcement agencies, restrictions on certain rights.

scholarly journals Corruption-Related Crime from the Perspective of “Dead-Letter” Articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Aleksandr N. Sukharenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
National Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

Despite the measures taken by the state, corruption remains one of the most serious threats to Russia’s national security. In recent years, the legislator has paid increased attention to toughening criminal liability for corruption crimes, the list of which is enshrined at the subordinate (interdepartmental) level. Taking into account the social danger of this problem, we carried out a detailed analysis of the state and dynamics of corruption crime in the country, as well as the geography of its prevalence. In the course of the analysis of law enforcement practice, a number of “dead” articles of the Criminal Code were identified that reduce the effectiveness of anti-corruption activities of law enforcement agencies and neutralize its main principle — the inevitability of liability for crimes.

scholarly journals Illegal crossing of the State Border of Ukraine: some aspects of elements of crime

1970 ◽  
pp. 315-320
Author(s):  
Yurii Kuryliuk
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Precise Determination ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Public

The article analyzes elements of the crime covered by the Article 332-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, establishing criminal liability for illegal crossing of the State Border of Ukraine, and also discloses peculiarities of the criminal legal qualification of this action. It is determined that as the patrimonial object of the crime under the Article 332-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine should be considered homogeneous social relations, covering a certain sphere of the public life that is the border security of Ukraine, violation of which causes socially dangerous harm to the components of this sphere that is defense of the State and its border protection, sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability. The direct object of this crime is the public relations, which provide for the normatively established and regulated procedure for crossing the State Border of Ukraine. It has been established that the procedure for crossing the State Border of Ukraine may manifest itself in several forms: 1) by any means (by foot, by auto transport, by swimming etc.) outside the checkpoints across the State Border of Ukraine; 2) by any means (whether hidden or breaking through, or not) at checkpoints across the State Border of Ukraine without the relevant documents; 3) by any means (whether hidden or breaking through, or not) at checkpoints across the State Border of Ukraine with the documents, containing inaccurate information. Should not be underestimated the blanket nature of the disposition of the mentioned article that requires precise determination of the relevant regulatory acts, determining the list of documents that are necessary for crossing the State Border of Ukraine by a certain category of people, and also confirm the fact of opening a specific checkpoint across the State Border of Ukraine. The disposition of the Article 332-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine defines several groups of subjects, in particular: 1) a person who is prohibited from entering the territory of Ukraine; 2) a representative of a unit of the armed forces or other law enforcement agencies of the State who is an aggressor; 3) a person with the aim to illegally cross the State Border of Ukraine for harming the interests of the State. Moreover, it was established that the aim for “harming the interests of the State” is not necessary for the illegal crossing of the State Border of Ukraine by persons who are prohibited from entering the territory of Ukraine, or by representatives of a unit of the armed forces or other law enforcement agencies of the State who is an aggressor. The criminalization of the illegal crossing of the State Border of Ukraine is an important aspect of creating conditions for the proper protection of the vital interests of an individual, the society and the State from real and potential external and internal threats in the border space of Ukraine.

scholarly journals Protection of public relations in the field of amber mining in Ukraine: legal aspect

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Y.A Kholod ◽  
I.M Pogrebnoy ◽  
K.O Chyshko ◽  
D.S Heta ◽  
O.P Shaituro
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Legal Concepts

Purpose. Defining legal means of protection of public relations in the field of amber mining in Ukraine, providing scientific and practical interpretation of protection legislation in this area and scientifically sound recommendations for its improvement. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is a system of general and special methods of cognition: the dialectical method was used to learn the essence of such a phenomenon as the protection of public relations in the field of amber mining in Ukraine; the system-structural method in the analysis of forms of socially dangerous acts of crimes under Art. Art. 240, 240-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; the logical-dogmatic method when interpreting certain terms used in the sciences of geology, administrative and criminal law, contained in the provisions of current legislation, as well as in formulating definitions of legal concepts and developing recommendations for improving legal norms; the comparative law method in the study on the ratio of socially dangerous acts under Art. Art. 201-1, 240, 240-1, 305 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; general methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, abstraction, generalization) in the study on scientific and regulatory sources. Findings. As a result of the study, the inconsistency of certain norms of criminal, administrative and customs legislation was established, which form the components of offenses in the field of illegal amber mining in Ukraine and establish the types and extent of responsibility for their commission, in particular: competition of certain norms, their inefficiency, disproportionate severity violation of the degree of their social danger. The scientific and practical interpretation is given of the forms of socially dangerous act provided by Art. 240-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, a comparative analysis is conducted of criminal, administrative and customs offenses in this area and proposals are provided to improve criminal, administrative and customs legislation, the rules of which protect public relations in the field of amber mining in Ukraine. Originality. It is proposed: 1) to supplement the Criminal Code of Ukraine, Art. 240-2, which provides for criminal liability for amber smuggling; 2) to supplement Chapter 68 of the Customs Code of Ukraine with Article 483-1, which provides for administrative liability for smuggling of amber in small amounts; 3) to supplement the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses with Article 58-2, which provides for administrative liability for illegal extraction of amber, its sale, purchase, storage, transfer, shipment, transportation, processing in small amounts. Practical value. Proposals to improve the current criminal, administrative and customs legislation are aimed at improving the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies against illegal amber mining in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Responsibility for violations of quarantine and sanitary rules and standards for preventing the spread of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) by law

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kovalova Svitlana ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Coronavirus Infection

The article analyzes the current state of legal support of quarantine requirements and sanitary rules and regulations for the prevention of infectious diseases in foreign countries and Ukraine. To achieve this goal, an analysis of the current legislation of some foreign countries and Ukraine on the grounds for establishing liability for violation of quarantine and sanitary norms and rules. It has been established that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the governments of different states to introduce administrative and criminal liability in case of violation of quarantine and sanitary norms and rules. To ensure these measures, penalties for non-compliance with the quarantine regime have been introduced, with penalties ranging from warning to imprisonment and even the death penalty. It is established that in Ukraine the issues of administrative and criminal liability for violation of quarantine and sanitary rules and regulations for the prevention of infectious diseases are regulated by Articles 42, 44-3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and Article 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. It is determined that one of the problems of ineffective application of Articles 44-3, 42 3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and Article 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is an array of new rules for the prevention of COVID-19, which is constantly changing and introduced by various law enforcement agencies. The study found that despite the adoption of regulations that established liability for violations of statutory rules and regulations introduced by both foreign countries and Ukraine to prevent COVID-19, they have a number of legal conflicts, inconsistencies and gaps. Keywords: quarantine, administrative responsibility, criminal responsibility, infectious diseases, coronavirus, prevention

scholarly journals Administrative and Legal Status of Law Enforcement Agencies as Subjects of Interaction with Financial Institutions in the Sphere of Combating the Legalization of Criminal Proceeds

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
A. V. Steblianko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Definition Of

The author has studied administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies, which are the subjects of interaction with financial institutions in the field of combating the legalization of criminal proceeds. The contents of such categories as status, legal status, administrative and legal status have been clarified. Based on the analysis of the scientific literature, the author has determined that the rights and responsibilities are integral structural elements of the administrative and legal status. It has been noted that two main approaches to determining the structural elements of the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies were formed in administrative law science. The author has provided the list of law enforcement agencies that are empowered to counter the legalization of criminal proceeds and are subjects of interaction with financial institutions. Such agencies are the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the agencies of the Security Service, the National Police and Prosecutor’s Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, the tax police units of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. The necessity to distinguish only such elements of the administrative and legal status of law enforcement agencies as the purpose, tasks, functions, competence, powers, legal responsibility, as well as organizational structure has been proved. The purpose of the activity of law enforcement agencies in this field has been formulated. Only those tasks and functions of law enforcement agencies that contribute to the achievement of the stated purpose have been considered. It has been emphasized that the competence is the sphere of activity of a certain law enforcement agency, and the authority is the totality of the rights and duties of that agency, granted by the legislation to perform the assigned functions within the competence. It has been established that the employees of the designated law enforcement agencies have disciplinary, civil, administrative and criminal liability. It has been stated that structural units facilitate the implementation of the tasks and functions of a specific law enforcement agency. The author has provided the definition of the administrative and legal status of the subjects that cooperate in the sphere of combating the legalization of criminal proceeds. The place and role of the indicated subjects in the sphere of combating the legalization of criminal proceeds have been determined.

scholarly journals Countering corruption in the context of the coronavirus pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 58-60
Author(s):  
A.V. Kurakin ◽  
◽  
A.N. Sukharenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
National Security ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Social

Despite the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, corruption remains one of the most serious threats to Russia’s national security. Taking into account the social danger of this problem, we carried out a detailed analysis of the dynamics of corruption crime in the country for 10 months of 2020, as well as the geography of its prevalence. In the course of the analysis of law enforcement practice, a number of unclaimed articles of the Criminal Code were identified that reduce the effectiveness of anti-corruption activities of law enforcement agencies and level its main principle — the inevitability of punishment for corruption crimes.

Criminal law impact in the mechanism of ensuring national security

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Duyunov ◽  
Ruslan Zakomoldin
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
National Security ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
General Object

The monograph examines the social and legal nature of the category "national security" as a socially significant good, an object of criminal law protection and a general object of crimes. The existence of a specific "sphere of crimes and crime" in public life is substantiated, its general characteristics are given, and the state of crime is analyzed as one of the most dangerous threats to national security in modern conditions. The problem of ensuring national security by criminal law means, the place and role of criminal policy and criminal law in the policy of combating crime and ensuring the national security of Russia are considered. Defines the concept of criminal law impact as a law-mediated reaction of the state to crime and crime, one of the key directions of the policy of combating crime, a comprehensive criminal law institution and one of the elements of the mechanism for ensuring national security. The publication is intended for students, postgraduates, researchers, teachers of law schools, employees of law enforcement agencies and all persons interested in the problems of law and law enforcement.

«PROBLEMS OF INITIATING A CRIMINAL CASE UNDER АRT. АRT. 195, 196 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY»

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.S. Yancer
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Revolutionary Period

This article examines the controversial issues of the delimitation of criminal bankruptcies - crimes under following articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 195 "Wrongful actions under the procedure of bankruptcy", 196 "Deliberate bankruptcy" and 197 "Fictitious bankruptcy" - from the swindling (article 159), which is a form of theft. The issue of distinguishing crime bankruptcy from fraud is not new. It was analyzed by the pre-revolutionary and modern specialists in criminal law. However the problem is on the front burner. The purpose of the study: to develop and propose the main criteria that make it possible to distinguish between criminal bankruptcies and other related elements of crimes and, in particular, from fraud, to improve the fight against crimes committed in the field of insolvency (bankruptcy) institution. The objectives of the study: to analyze the main approaches to distinguishing between criminal bankruptcies and fraud that existed in the pre-revolutionary period and at present; to compare the objective and subjective features of the analyzed compounds with each other, highlighting the similar and distinctive features. Research methods: historical, comparative legal, system-structural, formal-logical and method of studying documents. The study was conducted on the basis of the results of criminal investigations by investigators of the investigating authorities in the Krasnoyarsk Territory from 1997 to the present, and an analysis of classical and modern scientific literature. In the author's opinion, an urgent adjustment of the commented norms of the sectoral legislation and a number of other (departmental) normative legal acts is able to stabilize the relevant legal relations and improve the effectiveness of the criminally-remedial and intelligence-gathering activities of the law enforcement agencies concerned.

scholarly journals On exemption from criminal liability for unlawful restriction of competition (the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Evgen'evna Derevyagina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject of this research is the notes to the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Article 14.32 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses; foreign antimonopoly legislation on exemption and mitigation of liability for cartels; decisions of the plenums of higher judicial instances of the Russian Federation regarding the grounds and procedure for exemption from liability for cartel agreements; draft of the federal law on introducing amendments to the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and antimonopoly practice on cartels. The article aims to examine the grounds for exemption from criminal liability for cartel agreements, including in comparative-legal and interdisciplinary aspects. The novelty of this research consists in establishing extension of the grounds for exemption from liability in the Russian legislation to all cartel participants (unlike foreign legislation, according to which the cartel facilitator is not exempt from liability). This article is firs to provide interpretation to scantily studied questions of the procedure for realization of the conditions of exemption from criminal liability: the instance, when the cartel participant is still able to declare the restriction of competition to law enforcement agencies, and other measures of reparation of the inflicted damage. The author proposes a method for unification of the the grounds for exemption from liability stipulated by the Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Article 14.32 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. The acquired results can be applied in the activity of law enforcement agencies.

scholarly journals The prevalence of petty bribery as a principle of establishing a criminal prohibition for its commission

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Mihail Alaf'ev
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Main Method ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Relative Prevalence ◽  
Legislative Decision

Numerous changes in the criminal law associated with the emergence of new norms providing for responsibility for criminal liability inevitably raise the question of the validity of criminalization. Its positive solution is possible only if the new criminal law prohibition is established in accordance with the principles of criminalization, one of which is the relative prevalence of the act. The article is devoted to the assessment of the prevalence of petty bribery in order to determine the correctness of the legislative decision to establish independent criminal liability for this crime (Article 2912 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The main method of research is a statistical method that allows us to establish the prevalence of bribery in the amount not exceeding 10 thousand rubles at the time of the adoption of this legislative decision, and also during the period of validity of article 2912 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the share of the analyzed crime in the structure of bribery and corruption offences. In addition, the author analyzed 120 sentences of courts for petty bribery. As a result of the research, the author concludes that petty bribery is a fairly common offence in the structure of both bribery and corruption crimes, which indicates its public danger and the validity for the criminal prohibition of its commission. It was established that the establishment of a separate norm on liability for petty bribery allowed law enforcement agencies focusing the efforts to counteract bribery in the amount of more than 10 thousand rubles.

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