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Citation |
Sharapov RD, Smakhtin EV. Russian journal of criminology 2018; 12(3): 349-357. |
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(Copyright © 2018) |
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Abstract |
The paper analyzes the criminalpolicy and legal evaluation of inducement to suicide and other life- threatening behavior in view of the changes in criminal legislation in June 2017. The authors show that the key social condition for introducing new grounds for criminal liability for inducement to suicide and other life-threatening behavior is the wide-spread cases of inducement of children and teenagers to suicidal and other life-threatening behavior via the Internet. The authors also present criminal legal characteristics of the differentiation between homicide by taking your own life and inducement to (counseling, aiding) suicide, and the definition of crimes in cases of factual error. They recommend classifying the actions under Art. 110-110.2 of the Criminal Code if the intent of the offender includes the fact that a person will deliberately and understandingly take his/her life. In contrast, the involvement of a person into auto-aggressive behavior connected with causing their own death by counseling such an act or any other inducement to it when the offender is aware that, due to age or psychological disorder, the victims do not understand the character and meaning of the actions carried out with them should be classified as a murder. The concept of the victim's helplessness in the crimes of inducement to suicide should be interpreted in a restrictive way; such victims should be understood as being physically but not psychologically helpless. Criminal liability for the propaganda of auto-aggressive behavior (excepting suicidal behavior), connected with self-harm should be regulated under Part 3, Art. 239 of the Criminal Code. © 2018, Baikal National University of Economics and Law. All rights reserved. Language: ru |
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Keywords |
Suicide; Murder; Actions threatening the life of a minor; Calls for suicide; Counseling suicide; Inducement to suicide |