scholarly journals Problematic issues of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Legislation in Applying Coercive Medical Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-270
Author(s):  
D. V. Turenko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Main Component

The author of the article proves that the possibility for a court to apply coercive medical measures to an insane person who has committed a socially dangerous act is regulated by the norms of the law on criminal liability and the provisions of the criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine. Their implementation is carried out in the interaction of substantive and procedural law, in particular in certain forms of criminal liability and in measures that are not covered by criminal liability, but are called criminal coercion, and is resolved through individual procedural institutions. The scientific positions of certain scholars and representatives of scientific schools on these issues were studied. On their basis the author expressed a number of own conclusions on problematic and debatable areas and issues raised in the article. Based on the results, the author of the article made some conclusions about the application of coercive medical measures: establishing the fact of committing a criminal offense by a specific person; after a forensic psychiatric examination to determine that such a person is mentally ill and according to its results cannot be sane; such a person is socially dangerous to society and must be isolated for the period of involuntary treatment. In the absence of at least one of the elements of the specified structure, coercive medical measures cannot be applied. The author made generalization, based on the initial provision that the main component of criminal liability is the conviction of a person, the adoption of a court conviction, which provides a legal assessment of the act and the specific person who committed it. Comparison of the current criminal and criminal procedural legislation provides an opportunity to assess coercive medical measures by coercive measures of a criminal law nature, as those used in criminal law relations against persons who committed a socially dangerous act, are ill with certain types of mental illness at the moment of the commission of a crime. The tendency of modern development of the direction in criminal law about delimitation of concepts and essence of "release of the person from criminal liability" and "punishment" from "exclusion of such responsibility" and existence and allocation at the same time of other direction - "criminal coercion" is distinguished. At the same time, the conclusions concerning persons who fell ill with a mental illness after the commission of a crime or while serving a sentence in places of imprisonment that relate to the procedural mechanism of temporary suspension of the imposed criminal punishment, were singled out. The results of the study of criminal and criminal procedural legislation on the application of coercive medical measures confirm and present the mechanism of interaction and implementation of substantive and procedural legislation to ensure the objectives of criminal proceedings under the Art. 1 of the Criminal Code and the Art. 2 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine.

scholarly journals ILLEGAL AND UNCONTROLLED AMBER'S EXTRACTION AND MEASURES TO COMBAT IT

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
O. Kuchynska ◽  
V. Nesterovskyi ◽  
O. Starenkyi ◽  
Y. Tsyganyuk
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
And Control ◽  
Practical Recommendations

SignificantincreaseinthedemandforamberintheworldgaverisetoamultitudeofcomplexproblemsinUkraine, related not only togeology and mineral resources use, but also economy, legislation and other aspects of life.The prevention and control of crimes related to illegal amber's extraction are provided through various activities and methods. One of them is the implementation of the laws of Art. 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine through criminal prosecution. It is implemented by applying rules of criminal procedural law: individuals' actions qualification during adding data to the Unified Register of pre-trial investigations, enforcement of criminal proceedings, evidence providing in cases involving illegal amber's extraction, etc. Thus, as a consequence, there is a necessity to conduct theoretical and legal analysis, to develop practical recommendations to ensure the effective application of combatting measures against illegal amber's extraction during the implementation of evidence in criminal proceedings. In particular, the authors emphasize among these measures specific unspoken investigative actions, as they can provide appropriate, valid and credible evidence against illegal extraction of amber; individuals' actions qualification with the availability of actual grounds, which indicate commiting of moderate gravity crime, provided for by part 2, part 3 of Article 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 4 of Article 240 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is defined as unjustified. In order to avoid issues mentioned above, it has been proposed to assume the possibility of conducting unspoken investigative activities in the current Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine not only in relation to grave crimes or felonies, but also in relation to crimes of moderate gravity.

scholarly journals Classification of crimes in designing criminal procedure regulations

2019 ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
A. G. Kulev ◽  
L. O. Kuleva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Substantive Law

The rules on categorization of crimes are substantive and legal by their nature. Nevertheless, they have a great influence on the state and development of criminal procedural matter. It is proposed to divide the provisions of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, which reflect the provisions of Art. 15 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, into two groups. The first group includes the norms of criminal proceedings that are a kind of logical continuation of criminal law regulations related to exemption from criminal liability and punishment. The second group consists of strictly procedural rules that are not directly dependent on the substantive law: the composition of the bench, jurisdiction and competence of criminal cases, bail hearing, negotiations control and recording, the return of a criminal case to the prosecutor. Particular attention is given to the possibility for the court to change the classification of crimes. Based on the studied theoretical sources and court practice, the authors make suggestions aimed at improving the existing criminal procedure legislation and optimizing its application in the framework of the issues raised.

scholarly journals HAS THE 2015 AMENDMENT TO THE CRIMINAL CODE CHANGED THE PRACTICE OF APPLYING PROTECTIVE MEASURES? RESEARCH REPORT

Probacja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Pyrcak-Górowska
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Social Harmfulness

The article is the result of the research on the practice of applying a protective measure in the form of placement in a forensic psychiatric facility an insane perpetrator, before and after July 1st, 2015. The purpose of the research was to determine whether and how outpatient protective measures influenced the practice of applying psychiatric detention in case of insane persons, in particular, whether outpatient treatment is used instead of placement in a psychiatric facility in the case of committing offences with a lower degree of social harmfulness. The purpose of the research on the procedural law was to determine whether the judicature of the Supreme Court emphasizing the procedural standard in cases concerning the discontinuation of proceedings against an insane perpetrator affected the observance of procedural guarantees of insane perpetrators in criminal proceedings. The conclusions of the research are based on the statistical data of the Ministry of Justice, the General Prosecutor’s Office and the file research. The conclusions of the research are as follows: there was no significant change concerning the practice of imposing placement in a psychiatric facility on insane perpetrators after July 1st, 2015. The types of prohibited acts the commission of which justify placing the perpetrator in a psychiatric facility have not changed significantly. On the other hand, the procedural guarantees of the insane perpetrator are respected to a slightly higher degree at present. Therefore, it should be considered whether the conditions for the application of placement in a psychiatric facility should not be restricted only to a situation where the perpetrator poses a threat to selected, most important legal goods.

scholarly journals The criminal responsibility for defamation of knowingly innocent

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Vira Navrotska ◽  
Oksana Bronevytska ◽  
Galyna Yaremko ◽  
Roman Maksymovych ◽  
Vita Matolych
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Innocent Person ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The Right

The scientific article analyzes the acute discussion in law enforcement practice and procedural science of the problem of the possibility of criminal prosecution of a suspect, accused of defaming a knowingly innocent person in the commission of a crime. The theoretical basis of the article are scientific works on criminal law and criminal procedural law (both domestic researchers and foreign experts). A set of general scientific, special scientific and philosophical methods of scientific knowledge has been used while preparing the scientific article, in particular dialectical, historical, comparative, dogmatic (formal-logical), system-structural analysis, modeling. It is substantiated in the article that the behavior of the suspect, accused, which is manifested in slandering of a knowingly innocent person, does not constitute the right to freedom from self-disclosure. It is also proved that both freedom from self-disclosure and the right to defense in criminal proceedings must have certain limits, in particular, it is rights and interests of other subjects protected by criminal law. We stated that the suspect or accused should be liable for misleading the court and pre-trial investigation bodies even if such deception was used to protect against the suspicion (or accusation), to avoid criminal liability.

scholarly journals Criminal Liability of Legal Persons in Light of the Subsidiarity of Criminal Repression

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Pavel Kotlán
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract This paper deals with the definition of (substantive) subsidiarity of criminal repression and the possibility of its application to the criminal liability of legal persons. After defining the liability of legal persons in the relevant legal regulations, the paper presents an interpretation of subsidiarity in Section 12(2) of the Criminal Code that is significantly different from the “official” opinion. Subsequently, the paper discusses certain criminal law situations in which the application of subsidiarity would lead to the conclusion that the legal person is not punishable (“non-criminality”). The first aim was thus to present the theoretical concept of subsidiarity of criminal repression, which would be methodologically correct, and therefore generally applicable. The second objective was directed at demonstrating that this construct can be applied to specific examples of the liability of legal persons, that is, that it can be applied to the activities of the bodies in charge of criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals MENTAL ILLNESS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF CRIMINAL OFFENCE AGAINST THE PERSON

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 862-867
Author(s):  
Igor І. Mytrofanov ◽  
Igor V. Lysenko ◽  
Mykola М. Ryabushko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Bodily Harm ◽  
Medical Expert ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

Introduction: Among crimes against human health we distinguish serious bodily harms, one of the signs of which is recognized as a mental illness. The aim: The paper was aimed at the development of the procedure for determining the mental disorder of a victim as a sign of a serious bodily harm, as well as the establishing the possibilities of clarifying the legislative formulation of the above norm of the Criminal Code. Materials and methods: Over 300 criminal proceedings under the Arts.121, 122 and 125 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for the period from 2007 to 2018 have been studied. For this purpose, common methods of research have been used, namely, the analysis and synthesis, as well as own observations of the process of consideration of the above criminal proceedings. Results and conclusions: The findings of the study assisted in identification of gaps in the regulation of the procedure to define mental illness as a characteristic feature of serious bodily harm. The ways of further improvement of the procedure of conducting expert studies of mental illness as a characteristic feature of a serious bodily harm. The rules for determining the psychic (mental) illness that are recognized by us as archaic and that does not correspond to the established procedure of such definition by the comprehensive forensic medical and forensic psychiatric examination involving a forensic medical expert, two or three psychiatrists (narcologists), summarizing in the conclusion of the presence of mental illness in a person, assessed by experts as a characteristic feature of serious bodily harm should be changed.

scholarly journals Security Measures In Ukraine’ Criminal And Criminal Procedure Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-205
Author(s):  
V.V. Shpiliarevych
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Special Part ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law

The article is dedicated to the study of security measures in criminal and criminal procedural law of Ukraine. Determined by the influence of integration and globalization processes, there is a tendency of convergence of various branches of law, including criminal and criminal procedural law. Therefore, the implementation of a modern effective policy in the field of crime prevention in Ukraine requires an improvement of existing preventive measures and development of new ones, both at the international and national levels. That is why, criminal and criminal procedure measures, namely security measures, play an important role in ensuring the protection of a person's interests against internal and external threats. In particular, criminal-law security measures should be understood as a variety of measures of criminal nature, provided by the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which appliedn to a person, which is in «dangerous state», on behalf of the state on by reasonable court decision, in order to prevent the re-committing of a socially dangerous act, which predicted by the Special Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. From a criminal procedural point of view, security measures (measures to ensure the safety of participants in criminal proceedings) - is the implementation of legal, organizational, technical and other measures aimed to protect life, health, housing, property, honor and dignity of a person against unlawful attacks, in order to create the necessary conditions for the proper administration of justice. As a conclusion, the author states that the security measures existing in the criminal law of Ukraine differ from the security measures of criminal procedural character, by its nature, system, subjects to which such measures are applied, the purposes and aims of its application.

CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Александр Вячеславович ФЕДОРОВ
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Usual Procedure ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
General Part ◽  
Legal Entities

Статья посвящена вопросам введения уголовной ответственности юридических лиц на Украине. Рассматриваются попытки установления такой ответственности при подготовке нового Уголовного кодекса Украины и в дальнейшем путем принятия в 2009 г. специального уголовного закона об ответственности юридических лиц за совершение коррупционных преступлений. Украина стала первым из постсоветских государств, включившим такие нормы не в уголовный кодекс, а в специальный закон - комплексный нормативный правовой акт, содержащий нормы уголовного и уголовно-процессуального законодательства. Отмечается, что этот закон являлся действующим лишь 4 дня, и приводятся причины признания его утратившим силу. Повторно уголовная ответственность была установлена путем внесения в 2013 г. в Уголовный кодекс Украины изменений, согласно которым юридические лица признаются не субъектами уголовных правонарушений, а субъектами уголовной ответственности, заключающейся в применении судом в уголовно-процессуальном порядке мер уголовно-правового характера в отношении юридического лица. Применение таких мер возможно в случаях совершения уполномоченным физическим лицом уголовных правонарушений (преступлений и уголовных проступков), специально указанных в Общей части Уголовного кодекса Украины. Рассматриваются применяемые к юридическим лицам виды мер уголовно-правового характера: штраф, конфискация и ликвидация юридического лица. Приводятся правила применения к юридическим лицам мер уголовно-правового характера и основания для освобождения юридического лица от применения к нему таких мер. Отмечается, что уголовное судопроизводство по делам об уголовных правонарушениях, при совершении которых к юридическим лицам могут быть применены меры уголовно-правового характера, осуществляется в соответствии с обычной процедурой с учетом особенностей, предусмотренных Уголовно-процессуальным кодексом Украины. Дается краткая характеристика этих особенностей, в том числе указывается, что от имени юридического лица в уголовном процессе участвует его представитель. Рассматриваются его права и обязанности. The article is devoted to the issues of introducing criminal liability of legal entities in Ukraine. The article considers attempts to establish such liability in the preparation of the new Criminal Code of Ukraine and further by the adoption in 2009 of a special criminal law on liability of legal entities for committing corruption crimes. Ukraine became the first of the post-Soviet states to include such norms not in the criminal code, but in a special law - a comprehensive normative legal act containing the norms of criminal and criminal procedural legislation. It is noted that this law was in effect for only 4 days and the reasons for recognizing it as invalid are given. Criminal liability was re-established by introducing amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine in 2013, according to which legal entities are recognized not as subjects of criminal offenses, but as subjects of criminal liability, which consists in the application by the court in the criminal procedural procedure of measures of a criminal-legal nature in relation to a legal entity. The application of such measures is possible in cases of committing by an authorized individual of criminal offenses (crimes and criminal offenses), specially specified in the General Part of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The types of measures of a criminal-legal nature applied to legal entities are considered: fines, confiscation and liquidation of a legal entity. The rules for the application of measures of a criminal-legal nature to legal entities and the grounds for exempting a legal entity from applying such measures to it are given. It is noted that criminal proceedings on cases of criminal offences in commission of which measures of criminal law nature can be applied to legal persons, is carried out in accordance with the usual procedure taking into account the peculiarities provided by the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine. A brief description of these peculiarities is given, including the fact that on behalf of a legal entity its representative participates in criminal proceedings. The rights and obligations of the representative are considered.

Criminal and Administrative Responsibility for Violation of the Freedom of Conscience and Religion: Problem of Differentiation

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Шилин ◽  
Dmitriy Shilin
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Right

The article analyzes objective and subjective characteristics of elements of the violation of the right to freedom of worship and religions. In particular, the author investigates disposition of public actions that express obvious disrespect for the society with the aim to insult religious feelings of believers. The author notes timeliness of legislative recognition of this law which is in line with modern development of public relations and foreign best practice. The author calls into question the relevancy of establishing goals as an obligatory element of corpus delicti. The author pays attention to the contentious nature of article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and article 5.26 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offences and the absence of the due mechanism to overcome it in the criminal law science. Following the results of the research the author proposes changes to the criminal law to ensure the principle of inevitability of criminal liability and protection of the right to freedom of worship and religions guaranteed by the Constitution.

COMPETITION OF CRIMINAL LAW PROVISIONS, WHICH FORESEE CERTAIN TYPES OF EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL RESPONSBILITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
Vira Navrotska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Special Part

Proper delineation of different types of exemption from criminal liability, the solution of competition between the legal norms foreseen such exemption are important in practice. However, law enforcers, within closing criminal proceedings (termination of criminal prosecution) and releasing from criminal liability, do not even think about the existence of such competition and about the need to choose a legal norm that is more advantageous for the accused. Sometimes the competition of criminal law norms in legal literature is reduced only to the competition of these rules within the qualification of an act prohibited by the Criminal Code of Ukraine. This article is devoted to the analysis of credibility of this statement, possibility of competition within the procedure of releasing from criminal liability, as well as to the mode of action under such competition. The impossibility of competition between certain types of exemption from criminal responsibility has been criticized. It is noted that it�s impossible to give universal recommendations for determining the most �profitable� norm on the basis of which the exemption from criminal responsibility is permissible. However, the following conditions have to be taken into consideration: 1) whether the possibility of bringing a person to criminal responsibility in the future will remain; 2) whether it is obligatory for the court to make a decision on exemption from criminal responsibility; 3) which offences and persons who committed them the norm is settled for; 4) what (more or less strict) conditions for exemption from criminal responsibility are settled, when other conditions are equal. It is proved that the differentiation mechanism of types of exemption from criminal responsibility after effective repentance and after reconciliation with the victim should be as follows: if there is a victim (in the procedural sense) the proceedings should not be closed under Art. 45 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. There is a special institution - the closure of criminal proceedings after reconciliation of the perpetrator with the victim (Article 46 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) for exemption from criminal responsibility in such cases. The exemption from criminal responsibility after effective repentance is expedient to apply if the encroachment harms the public interest. It is substantiated that a special rule, regarding one fixed in Article 45 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, is foreseen by Part 4 of Article 311 of this Code - because it foresees the conditions of exemption from criminal responsibility of a person who has committed a specific criminal offense. The unambiguity and categoricalness of the statement, under which in Article 45 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is not foreseen a general type of exemption from criminal responsibility regarding the special ones foreseen by the Special Part, is criticized; it is proved that at least one such exception exists;

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