Author

SMIRNOV A.M.

Title of article

ON THE SOCIAL DANGER OF THE ACTS COMMITTEDIN THE CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING CRIMINALITY OF THE ACT

Section

Section 4. Criminal Law

Issue, year

4 (46) 2018

Abstract

Basing on the study of scientific points of view and analysis of the provisions of the Russian criminal law, the author of the article proves the existence of a public danger of the acts committed in circumstances that exclude the criminality of the act. The Russian criminal law, which
determines all citizens without exception as an object of criminal law protection (including persons who are committing or have committed a crime), indicates this danger. At the same time, the nature of the
harm caused in these circumstances is not specified, and a reciprocal (equivalent) response to the harmdoer or the source of imminent danger is accepted. Social utility (admissibility) and the forcedness of the
acts committed in the circumstances under consideration, as well as the absence of their unlawfulness, do not necessarily exclude the social danger of these acts. They can be characterized as non-criminal
infliction of socially dangerous harm. However, the legislator excludes the criminality of these acts directively. The non-recognition of the social danger of the acts committed under such circumstances
as necessary defense, extreme necessity and causing harm to the person who committed the crime, justifies the death penalty.

Keywords

social danger; circumstances excluding criminality of the act; petty offence; physical coercion; mental coercion

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