Affiliation:
1. DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL LAW POLICY AND CRIMINAL LAW, TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV, UKRAINE
2. DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND MEDICAL LAW, BOGOMOLETS NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, KYIV, UKRAINE
Abstract
The aim: based on the features of the notion of “abetting the commission of crimes established in accordance with the Convention” provided for in Part 1 of Art. 9 of the Medicrime Convention, it is necessary to offer an adequate understanding of the notion of “abetting” and define the types of criminal offenses (crimes) that are the “subject” of such abetting.
Materials and methods: the research is based on an analysis of the provisions of the Medicrime Convention and the criminal law of Ukraine. The following methods were used: dialectical method; hermeneutic method; systemic-and-structural method; and comparative-legal method.
Results: at the legislative level, there is a problem of designating the relevant socio-legal phenomena with adequate concepts and interpretations of these concepts. In the current criminal legislation of Ukraine, there is no definition of the concept of “abetting”, which is used in Part 1 of Art. 9 of the Medicrime Convention. Therefore, in the implementation of the requirements provided for in Part 1 of Art. 9 of the Medicrime Convention, each Party takes the necessary legislative and other measures to recognize abetting in committing any crimes, established under this Convention, as a crime, therefore we should take into account the existence of two alternative ways to explain the meaning of “abetting”: 1) to recognize at the legislative level that “abetting” and “incitement” are synonyms, and therefore the meaning of the term “abetting” can be explained by using the term “inclination”; 2) to recognize at the legislative level that the concept of “abetting” has a meaning different from the concept of “incitement”, and covers not only “inclination”, but also “coercion”, “motivation” and “encouragement”.
Conclusions: the main disadvantage of using the concept of “abetting” in the text of the Ukrainian translation of the Medicrime Convention is that without an independent explanation of this concept at the legislative level, its content should be determined depending on the meaning of the term “inciter” under Part 4 of Art. 27 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and means inciting a person to commit any of the crimes specified in the Medicrime Convention.
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