Article title Criminal Code of Ukraine – legal framework of fighting against criminality in Ukraine
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Name of magazine Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version)
Issue 1-2/2012
Сторінки [243-257]
Annotation On the basis of analysis of the Criminal Code of Ukraine 2001 specified on base, conceptual positions that were mine-out in the process of its preparation and fixed in basis of its orders. Basic institutes and norms are characterized by General and Special Parts of Criminal Code, specified not only on a succession but also on their fundamental differences from before operating Criminal Code 1960 in the field of legal regulation of grounds of criminal responsibility, concept of crime, features of discharge absolute and punishment, system of punishments and order of their setting, construction of the system of Special Part of Criminal Code and establishments of responsibility for the separate types of crimes. On the basis of analysis drawn conclusion, that operating Criminal Code of Ukraine reflects the achievements of modern science of criminal law, is based on Constitution of Ukraine and general-confessed principles and norms of international law, asserts principles of humanism and legality and creates terms the same for normal realization of justice and construction in Ukraine of the social, legal state.
Keywords decriminalization, founding of criminal responsibility, subject of crime, age of responsibility, voluntary abandonment, responsibility, diminished responsibility, limitations of responsibility, guilt and its forms, preparation, attempt
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