THE FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS CORRELATION WITH THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LAW ON CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Author
, associate professor, Kharkiv, Pushinska, 77
, associate professor, Kharkiv, Pushinska, 77

In heading

 Law;

Signed print

 08.09.2017

Issues number

 2017 - № 3 (30)

Page

 171-185

Type of articles

 Scientific article

Code UDK

 343.01

ISSN print

 2411-5584

Abstract

 Problem setting. Modern tendencies in the development of jurisprudence require deepening of the notions about the essence of the functions of criminal law as the basis for improving its concept, the content of the subject of legal regulation and clarification of the list of social relations.
Recent research and publication analysis. Yu. V. Baulin, N. V. Henrikh, A. P. Kozlov, N. F. Kuznietsova, O. V. Nadon, A. V. Naumov, M. I. Panov, A. A. Piontkovskyi, B. T. Razghildyiev, M. D. Sharhorodskyi, V. D. Filimonov were engaged the question of the functions of criminal law and the content of criminal and legal relations.
Paper objective. The purpose of the article is to analyze the content of criminal law functions and their correlation with the functions of the law on criminal responsibility, the purpose of criminal law and the law on criminal responsibility.
Paper main body. The crime can be viewed from the perspective of certain legal relationships – the relationship of one subject (offender) to the rights of another (victim), which are central importance to their occurrence through the legal fact – socially dangerous unlawful actions. Preventing the emergence of these relations also generates certain social relations but with another meaning.
Involving a person in criminally liable generates a criminal and legal relationship between the accused and the judiciary. If the guilt of a person is proved in law and established in a guilty verdict handed down by a court, this must entail to certain criminal and legal relations of a different kind. These relationships depend on the form to implement criminal liability chosen by the court with the inherent purpose of each of them. Achieving the goal is also capable to generate the relevant legal relationship.
The functions of criminal law and the functions of the law on criminal responsibility are mutually related categories and are in an appropriate relationship. This makes it possible to confirm the existence of a chain of relevant criminal and legal phenomena: the purpose of criminal law → purpose of the law on criminal responsibility → functionality generates a variety of public relations of criminal and legal nature → the sum of such social relations forms the subject of the relevant field of law.
Conclusion of the research. As a result of the study, it has been confirmed that the existing doctrine of interdependence between the purpose of criminal law and the law on criminal responsibility with the tasks of the Criminal Code affects the formation functions of criminal law that are capable of generating the relevant social relations.
Short Abstract for an article
Abstract. The article is devoted to the clarification of the role and significance of criminal law for the state, society and personality at the present stage of their development. It is proved that criminal law is a special branch of law with unique instruments of legal regulation. Questions about the functions and tasks of the criminal law are closely linked with the views on the subject of criminal law through the prism of ideas about the mutual legal relationship between the state and the offender. It is confirmed that the existing doctrine of the mutual relation between the purpose of criminal law and the law on criminal responsibility with the objectives of the Criminal Code affects the formation of the functions of criminal law, forms the “intellectual framework” for further in-depth study of the content of the subject and method of criminal law, may contribute to the proposals “de lege ferenda” to the regulations Article 1 of the Criminal Code.

Keywords

 The functions of criminal law, the functions of the law on criminal responsibility, the purpose of criminal law, the subject of criminal law, the task of the Criminal Code, the purpose of the law on criminal responsibility.

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External reviewer

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