The Social Dangers Of The Crime Of Abuse Of Power Or Position: Problems Of Theory And Practice

Author(s):  
Shukhrat Khodjievich Alirizaev ◽  

The article deals with the theoretical problems of social danger of the crime of abuse of power or official position (Article 205 of the Criminal Code), its place in criminal law, its connection with other official crimes. It also analyzes the increase in this crime in public life, corruption offenses and the origin of crimes. Signs of these and other official crimes are highlighted. Qualification issues in the competition of general and special official crimes are analyzed.

Author(s):  
Oleg Gribunov ◽  
Gennady Nebratenko ◽  
Evgeny Bezruchko ◽  
Elena Millerova

The authors examine the specific features of criminal law assessment of involvement in prostitution and the organization of this activity through the use or the threat of violence. At the beginning, they stress the urgency of counteracting the social phenomenon of prostitution, analyze the very concept of «prostitution», its debatable and problematic aspects, because it is impossible to offer a correct qualification of criminal actions connected with prostitution (crimes under Art. 240 and 241 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) without determining the boundaries of providing sexual services specifically referring to the term «prostitution». It is concluded that the key problem for determining the scope of sexual actions described by the term «prostitution» is the lack of an official definition of this term in Russian legislation as well as a wide variety of services in the modern sex industry. The authors state that the understanding of prostitution as a historical social phenomenon as a situation when a woman provides sexual services to different men by performing sexual acts with them for previously discussed material compensation is outdated and does not reflect the multiple dimensions of modern prostitution. While researching the issues of qualifying criminal acts connected with prostitution and involving the use or the threat of violence within the framework of this article, the authors have analyzed the work of both Russian and foreign scholars and studied examples of investigation and court practice. They examine the problems of legal assessment of criminal law categories «violence» and «the threat of using violence» regarding publically dangerous actions connected with the involvement in prostitution and the organization of this activity. The authors present the criteria of differentiating between corpus delicti where such actions are criminally punishable and other corpus delicti, as well as the cases that require qualification for multiple crimes. The results of this research allowed the authors to work out and present recommendations on qualifying criminal actions connected with prostitution and involving the use of the threat of violence.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Adrian Cristian MOISE

Starting from the provisions of Article 2 of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime and from the provisions of Article 3 of Directive 2013/40/EU on attacks against information systems, the present study analyses how these provisions have been transposed into the text of Article 360 of the Romanian Criminal Code.  Illegal access to a computer system is a criminal offence that aims to affect the patrimony of individuals or legal entities.The illegal access to computer systems is accomplished with the help of the social engineering techniques, the best known technique of this kind is the use of phishing threats. Typically, phishing attacks will lead the recipient to a Web page designed to simulate the visual identity of a target organization, and to gather personal information about the user, the victim having knowledge of the attack.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Zulkhumor Ibrokhimova ◽  

This article deals with the social danger of some crimes against family and family relations in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan. From a scientific, theoretical and practical standpoint, the author analyzes the signs of the objective side of the elements of some crimes against the institution of the family, defined in Chapter V "Crimes against family, youth and morality" of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan. In particular, such crimes as evasion from the maintenance of minors or disabled persons, evasion from the maintenance of parents, substitution of a child, disclosure ofthe secret of adoption, violation of the legislation on marriageable age were comprehensively considered. In addition, the issues of criminalization of certain acts against the family, which are not recognized as criminal in the Criminal Code, were raised and relevant proposals were presented


10.12737/4823 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Виктор Беспалько ◽  
Viktor Bespalko

In the article the author analyzes the current state of Russian law on crimes against freedom of conscience and religious security. He proves social necessity for criminal law protection of religious relations. He also proposes his classification of the criminal offenses. The article contains the term «religious security». It shows the main threats to religious security in modern conditions, which need counteraction by criminal law. The author developed amendments and additions to the Criminal Code, taking into account the level of religious relations in Russian society. He demonstrates the social significance of protection of the personal freedom of conscience and religious security from criminal trespasses in a democratic state. The author based results of his investigation on sociological findings and links to sources of domestic and foreign criminal law.


Author(s):  
Vadym Dyadichko

There is the search for optimal ways to improve domestic legislation in terms of criminal liability for sexual abuse of children by analyzing the latest changes and additions to the Criminal Code of some European countries. One such way is to criminalize such an act as "cybergrooming". The analysis of the relevant criminal law of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Spain has allowed to conclude that the approach of the legislator of the Republic of Bulgaria to the regulation of criminal liability for "cybergrooming" seems to be worth worth studying its practical application in order to determine the possibility of future borrowing by the domestic legislator. In addition, on the positive side, the Criminal Code of this state has criminal liability for lewd acts or sexual intercourse with a minor engaged in prostitution. The Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Spain deserves attention to the existence of a single rule (Article 183), which includes various manifestations of sexual violence against children. The author has noted that such an approach of the legislator of this state also requires a separate, more in-depth analysis for its possible borrowing by the domestic legislator. In addition, it is worth studying the issue of separate criminalization in the Criminal Code of Ukraine as sexual violence, sexual intercourse with persons aged sixteen to eighteen, committed with the use of influence on the victim in such ways as: fraud or abuse of trust, abuse of official position by an official.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-330
Author(s):  
V.V. Popov ◽  
◽  
S.M. Smolev ◽  

The presented study is devoted to the issues of disclosing the content of the goals of criminal punishment, analyzing the possibilities of their actual achievement in the practical implementation of criminal punishment, determining the political and legal significance of the goals of criminal punishment indicated in the criminal legislation. The purpose of punishment as a definition of criminal legislation was formed relatively recently, despite the fact that theories of criminal punishment and the purposes of its application began to form long before our era. These doctrinal teachings, in essence, boil down to defining two diametrically opposed goals of criminal punishment: retribution and prevention. The state, on the other hand, determines the priority of one or another goal of the punishment assigned for the commission of a crime. The criminal policy of Russia as a whole is focused on mitigating the criminal law impact on the offender. One of the manifestations of this direction is the officially declared humanization of the current criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. However, over the course of several years, the announced “humanization of criminal legislation” has followed the path of amending and supplementing the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: introducing additional opportunities for exemption from criminal liability and punishment, reducing the limits of punishments specified in the sanctions of articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and including in the system of criminal punishments of types of measures that do not imply isolation from society. At the same time the goals of criminal punishment are not legally revised, although the need for such a decision has already matured. Based on consideration of the opinions expressed in the scientific literature regarding the essence of those listed in Part 2 of Art. 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the goals of punishment are determined that each of them is subject to reasonable criticism in view of the abstract description or the impossibility of achieving in the process of law enforcement (criminal and penal) activities. This circumstance gives rise to the need to revise the content of the goals of criminal punishment and to determine one priority goal that meets the needs of modern Russian criminal policy. According to the results of the study the conclusion is substantiated that the only purpose of criminal punishment can be considered to ensure proportionality between the severity of the punishment imposed and the social danger (harmfulness) of the crime committed. This approach to determining the purpose of criminal punishment is fully consistent with the trends of modern criminal policy in Russia, since it does not allow the use of measures, the severity of which, in terms of the amount of deprivation and legal restrictions, clearly exceeds the social danger of the committed act. In addition, it is proportionality, not prevention, that underlies justice – one of the fundamental principles of criminal law.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3(84)) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
V. Gladkikh

The article discusses the theory and practice of applying Art. 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for liability for causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust. The problems of delimiting the article under consideration with related compositions (Articles 159, 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) are noted, measures are proposed to improve the criminal law.


Author(s):  
Samvel Kochoi ◽  
Irina Grebenkina

During the fourth industrial revolution 3D print technologies became one of the prospective trends in regenerative medicine that offer new opportunities for treating people and conducting research; they make it possible to solve the problem of deficit of human organs and tissues for transplantation and, at the same time, to put an end to trade in human organs and issues. However, it is impossible to achieve the goals of regenerative medicine without settling a number of urgent civil and criminal law questions, and the presented study is devoted to searching the answers to these questions. The authors apply the methodologies of weighing the interests, legal analysis, unity of theory and practice, and legal axiology to discuss the questions of the legal regime of biomaterials, biosamples used for 3D-bioprinted organs and tissues, 3D-bioprinted organs and tissues themselves, as well as human organs and (or) tissues in criminal legislation. Based on this research, they suggest recognizing biomaterials, biosamples and 3D-printed organs as property and objects of proprietary interests by singling out their specific features. Since the development of additive manufacturing and 3D-printing is supposed to put an end to trade in human organs and tissues, the paper presents recommendations on improving the criminal law norms as a vital method of criminal law counteraction to the abovementioned crimes in general. Specifically, they formulate the idea on widening the object of crime in Art. 120 of the Criminal Code, present additional arguments regarding the possibility of recognizing human biomaterials, organs and (or) tissues as objects of crimes against property, as well as suggest supplementing Chapter 25 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with a norm on liability for illegal deals involving human biomaterials, organs and (or) tissues.


Temida ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-358
Author(s):  
Kristina Jorgic-Stepanovic

The author gives a detailed analysis of the 1929 Criminal Code paragraphs that pertain to abortion. Analyzing the social indications, the paper also explains the methodological inability to determine the precise number of abortions performed during the 1930s. However, the subject of this paper is not solely an exploration of legal regulations on abortions, but rather the identification of the treatment of women in the Yugoslav Kingdom?s Criminal law from this point of view. Considering that the problem of induced abortions was approached from the existing conservative- patriarchal socio- political position, the press was often the key source for analyzing and documenting this problem. Precisely because of this fact, the paper presents an affair that revolved around the work of gynaecologist Pance Stojanovic in mid-summer 1936. This case showed the deep corruption of the Yugoslav society, but also the involvement of various representatives of power in this affair. It turned out that the patients were women from different backgrounds, but that girls and women from affluent families were far more numerous. Faced with the increasing number of fatalities following induced abortions, doctors at the 17th Congress of the Serbian Medical Association called for changes to the articles of the Yugoslav Criminal Code relating to abortion.


Teisė ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Romualdas Drakšas ◽  
Regina Valutytė

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos baudžiamosios atsakomybės nustatymo ir įgyvendinimo problemos Lietuvoje ir vertinama, ar Lietuva tinkamai vykdo tarptautinius įsipareigojimus drausti ir bausti kankinimus. Atsi­žvelgdami į kankinimo sampratą tarptautinėje teisėje, autoriai pateikia Lietuvos baudžiamosios teisės teorijai ir praktikai tinkamiausią kankinimo apibrėžimą bei įvertina, ar Lietuvos Respublikos baudžiama­jame kodekse turėtų būti straipsnis, numatantis tiesioginę atsakomybę už žmogaus kankinimą. The article discusses the problems of determination and implementation of criminal responsibility for torture in Lithuania. It is evaluated weather Lithuania meets its engagements to prohibit and punish the act of torture properly. Taking into account the concept of torture in international law the authors suggest a definition of torture that fits most for the theory and practice of Lithuanian criminal law. The authors also evaluate whether the Criminal Code of Lithuania should be complemented with an additio­nal article providing for the direct responsibility for torture.


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