scholarly journals Criminal implications of the legal status of members of the governing body and persons carrying out key functions in banks

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Roman Eremciuc ◽  
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Octavian Bivol ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
National Bank ◽  
The Will ◽  
Commercial Organization ◽  
Sufficient Precision

In some cases, the operation of legislative additions and amendments to the Criminal Code may raise uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of the criminal law. In this regard, the will of the legislator is to be expressed in a manner that meets the recognized criteria of quality of the law, namely: accessibility, predictability and clarity. In particular, the rule of criminal law must be worded with sufficient precision so as to enable the person to decide on his conduct and to reasonably foresee, in the light of the circumstances of the case, the consequences of such conduct. In this article, the authors set out to interpret the last sentence of art. 123 para. (2) of the Criminal Code, i.e. – to determine whether the members of the governing body and the persons holding key positions in the bank can be considered persons authorized or invested by the state to provide, on their behalf, public services or perform activities of interest public and implicitly, if they can be considered public persons, within the meaning of art. 123 paragraph (2) of the Criminal Code, since, before the exercise of responsibilities, the candidatures of such persons must be approved by the National Bank of Moldova, or either, are to be considered persons managing a commercial organization, within the meaning of article 124 of the Criminal Code.

International legal framework for the criminal legal protection of the embryo

2021 ◽  
pp. 296-308
Author(s):  
Nikolai A. Ognerubov
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
International Aspects

In connection with the active development and use of assisted reproductive technologies, protection of the human embryo and its legal status issue is currently being actualized. We make an attempt to reveal and explain some of the international aspects of the criminal law protection of the life and rights of the embryo. We consider the concept of “embryo” not only from the point of view of various scientific approaches (medicine, biology, embryology, jurisprudence), but also from the legislative side. We present and analyze the first mention of the embryo in Roman private law in connection with modern domestic law. We carry out an analysis of international legal acts that provide protection of embryos both “in vitro” and “in vivo”, followed by consideration of specific criminal law norms of foreign countries, namely Brazil and Colombia. We pay attention to some of the most famous cases from the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in order to understand the applied international legal acts “de facto”. The study also takes into account modern domestic legislation and considers point “g” of part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Criminal Liability and Artificial Intelligence: Theoretical and Applied Aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarina Khisamova ◽  
Ildar Begishev
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Self Learning

The humanity is now at the threshold of a new era when a widening use of artificial intelligence (AI) will start a new industrial revolution. Its use inevitably leads to the problem of ethical choice, it gives rise to new legal issues that require urgent actions. The authors analyze the criminal law assessment of the actions of AI. Primarily, the still open issue of liability for the actions of AI that is capable of self-learning and makes a decision to act / not to act, which is qualified as a crime. As a result, there is a necessity to form a system of criminal law measures of counteracting crimes committed with the use of AI. It is shown that the application of AI could lead to four scenarios requiring criminal law regulation. It is stressed that there is a need for a clear, strict and effective definition of the ethical boundaries in the design, development, production, use and modification of AI. The authors argue that it should be recognized as a source of high risk. They specifically state that although the Criminal Code of the Russian Fe­deration contains norms that determine liability for cybercrimes, it does not eliminate the possibility of prosecution for infringements committed with the use of AI under the general norms of punishment for various crimes. The authors also consider it possible to establish a system to standardize and certify the activities of designing AI and putting it into operation. Meanwhile, an autonomous AI that is capable of self-learning is considerably different from other phenomena and objects, and the situation with the liability of AI which independently decides to undertake an action qualified as a crime is much more complicated. The authors analyze the resolution of the European Parliament on the possibility of granting AI legal status and discuss its key principles and meaning. They pay special attention to the issue of recognizing AI as a legal personality. It is suggested that a legal fiction should be used as a technique, when a special legal personality of AI can be perceived as an unusual legal situation that is different from reality. It is believed that such a solution can eliminate a number of existing legal limitations which prevent active involvement of AI into the legal space.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
Vasily N. Nekrasov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, the author tried to consider the impact of such innovation results as technology on domestic criminal law and to understand whether the legislator is ready for them. In the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the legislator does not once use a single general concept in relation to technical innovations, which allows to characterize its various elements. At the same time, the legislator traditionally uses such private terms as tools, means, equipment, system, etc. When considering this issue, the first thought that comes to mind is that technical innova-tions in the Criminal Code are regarded as instruments or means of committing a crime. In criminal law theory, there are many points of view on the question of distinguishing between "instrument" and "means" of crime. The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation does not clearly understand the concepts under analysis. Technical innovations, such as equipment by domestic lawmakers, are regarded as instruments and means of committing a crime. The above concepts were traditionally used by the legislator to construct the norms of the Russian criminal law. At the same time, due to the active development of innovation activity, new technical innovations are appearing today, which, firstly, did not exist before, and secondly, they have a number of specific features. At the same time, definitions that were not previously used in the Russian criminal law, which allow judging about new possibilities of technology, which only stimulate the discus-sion about the legal status of technology, both in criminal law and in legislation as a whole, are already in place today. Social relations are undergoing certain changes as a result of innovative activities. In this regard, the object of crime is also being transformed. As a result, a new type of property is emerging, namely intellectual property, which is also subject to criminal law protection. It seems that today there is a need to combine the norms in the field of crimes that infringe on innovative activity into a separate group of norms. These social relations have a number of features that make it possible to consider forming them into a separate type of crime object. Separating groups of crimes in the area of innovative activity will be of great importance. In particular, it will make it possible to establish public danger in relation to a group of crimes and to analyse changes in the degree of public danger of crime depending on the type of quali-fying and attracting circumstances.

scholarly journals Legislative textology as an integral part legislative technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Alexandra Sitnikova
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
Textual Approach ◽  
Legal Technology ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Technical Industry

The purpose of the work is to present scientific provisions that provide the theoretical basis of the legislative and textual approach to criminal law prescriptions. Methodology. The dialectical method of cognition in conjunction with instrumental scientific methods is used as a methodological basis for this study. Main results: 1) the technocentric orientation of representatives of various scientific organizations is based on a linguistic approach to law-making. The consequence of this is the identification of language and technical elements of legislative technology; 2) the new legislative-textual approach makes it possible to improve the quality of criminal law by developing optimal models of criminal-legal prescriptions, observing the compositional and graphic design of the normative text, identifying non-standard elements of crimes, as well as by developing rules for constructing notes, providing legislative-textual interpretation of prescriptions, and analyzing changes and additions to the text of the criminal code of the Russian Federation. Conclusion. Legislative textology is a promising direction of research regulatory requirements, builds on the achievements of the legal-technical industry knowledge, respond to unresolved legal technology issues of designing quality of the regulations allows a two-level interpretation of the regulatory text in the course of application of criminal law.

scholarly journals A NEW LEGAL SOLUTION ON RECIDIVISM IN SERBIАN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Bodrožić ◽  
Đorđe Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Judicial Decision Making ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Persistent Offending

From the adoption of the Criminal Code in 2006 until the latest amendments of 2019, the Serbian criminal legislation treated recidivism as an optional aggravating circumstance, which had its specific legal status in comparison with other mitigating and aggravating circumstances. According to the new legal solution, instead of being optional, recidivism has become a mandatory aggravating circumstance, which together with clearly specified conditions for harsher penalties narrows down the possibility of free judicial decision-making when meting out punishment. The paper answers several questions: whether harsher penalties for recidivists are only the result of continuous tightening of repression at a normative level, whether and to what extent the criminal-law framework has been improved, and whether returning to some solutions, which were not normally applied in court practice, can be marked as approriate to achieve the desired degree of crime prevention. Final critical conculusion is that the new legal solution on recidivism appears regressive, given that the court is strictly bound by the law through oblitatory conditions regarding prior and persistent offending, which is in compliance with the general trend of tightening repression at the normative level and reducing the role of the court to the level of administrative application of the norm.

On the compliance of the provisions of Article 185.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with the laws of corporate governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 503-514
Author(s):  
Nikolay Ryzhenkov
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Design And Application

Raiding, along with corruption, has long been one of the most pressing problems for domestic business. For incomprehensible reasons, in contrast to the corruption crimes, which received due attention from the legislator and legal scholars, crimes committed in the stock market, after their reckless introduction, have been deprived of attention for almost a decade. At the same time, the most dangerous methods of raider seizures currently do not fall under criminal law prohibitions at all, and the existing prohibitions, in turn, have such a low legal potential that leaving this problem without atten-tion raises serious concerns. We consider the design and application of Article 185.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – Obstruction or illegal restriction of the rights of securities holders, intended to become the “flagship” of anti-raiding legislation. Through a systematic analysis of the prescriptions of the criminal law and a few judicial practice, we identify the low quality of criminal law prohibitions included in Article 185.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, we establish and substantiate the impossibility of causing damage in the required amount, we prove the lack of practical need for the relevant norm, we formulate a proposal for its exclusion from the text of the criminal law in full.

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 Dekryminalizacja przestępstwa (nieświadomie) nieumyślnego?

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Marcin Byczyk
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
American Science ◽  
Special Character ◽  
The Will

The author considers the reasonableness of the recently proposed – especially in the German and Ango–American science of Criminal Law – postulates of decriminalization of the unintentional crimes. The analysis of those propositions reveals that they are based on questioning the possibility of proving guilt of the perpetrator of inadvertently negligent crime. Such doubts have generally not been shared by the Polish doctrine of criminal law, although authors considering this question seem have been aware of the special character of the criminalization of those crimes, where there is no culpability of the will. At the same time, the analysis of the formulated on the grounds of theory of criminalization premises of the creating penal prohibitions reveals that the unintentional crimes, especially of inadvertent negligence, fulfill those premises. It does not change the fact that this type of responsibility should be applied exceptionally, more rarely than it is currently the case in the Polish Criminal Law. The achievement of this purpose could be possible by replacing in case of some crimes the unintentionality clause with recklessness clause. The chance to reflect upon this question could be the current discussion upon the changes in the Polish Criminal Code.

scholarly journals The crime of the so-called prenatal injury and the question of non-punishability of the mother of a conceived child

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Jan Sobiech
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Unborn Child ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
Controversial Aspect

The article considers the crime of the so-called prenatal injury, which is stipulated in Article 157a of the Polish Criminal Code. The question of the possibility of unpunished interference of the mother in the body of her unborn child is undoubtedly an important and controversial aspect of modern criminal law, especially in the context of the principles of protecting human life and health. The article also touches on philosophical and legal subjects, namely the moment when a person is created and subsequently protected by the state and law. Finally, the article answers the question whether the current legal status should be maintained and how it could possibly be revised.

scholarly journals Rape and Sexual Violence: the Quality of Law and the Questions of Qualification

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 896-904
Author(s):  
Arseniy Bimbinov
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Sexual Crimes ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Simultaneous Existence ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Principle Of Legality ◽  
Anal Penetration

The article examines the problems of legislative regulation of liability for violent sexual crimes and the qualification of such offences. The author states that Russian criminal law is ambiguous in its understanding of such categories as sexual intercourse, lesbian and gay homosexual acts. The content of other actions of sexual nature also poses questions. The analysis of criminal law norms protecting the sexual freedom of a person, as well as the analysis of court and investigation reports, showed that some criteria of differentiating liability for these crimes are not well-grounded. A systemic approach to examining the norms of Chapter 18 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (CC of the RF) revealed the following problems. The current version of the CC of the RF does not penalize a violent sexual act if its victim is male. The use of violence by a woman against a man during a sexual intercourse is not covered by Art. 132 of the CC of the RF, because other sexual acts, according to law, are sexual acts that are not sexual intercourse, lesbian or gay homosexual acts. Simultaneous existence of actus reus under Art. 131 and 132 of the CC of the RF, according to the principle of legality, should prevent from charging for rape under Art. 131 only. Human sexuality requires, as a rule, that sexual intercourse should be accompanied by other acts of sexual nature (forced kissing, masturbation, impact on breasts or other sexual acts) aimed at achieving sexual arousal and satisfaction, which, under Art. 17 of the CC of the RF, constitutes a combination of offences. The differentiation of liability for various acts of sexual nature under Art. 131 and 132 of the CC of the RF violates the principle of justice. If there is a sequence of violent sexual acts (for example, oral and anal penetration with the use of violence), these actions are qualified only pursuant to Art. 132 of the CC of the RF. If there is a violent sexual intercourse and some other act of sexual nature, these actions are punished as multiple offenses. The author uses doctrinal views, analysis of current legislation and the practice of its enforcement to suggest a solution for the described problems.

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