List of publications on a keyword: «criminal responsibility»

In the present study the institution of complicity is considered, namely, the authors focus on the mastermind as one of the components of complicity. This type of complicity today has, from the point of view of the scientific community, quite a large number of debatable questions about its establishment as the “person behind the crime” and bringing it to criminal responsibility. Authors have tried to disclose the existing dispute and, accordingly, to offer a solution to the present controversial issues in the legal presentation of the national legislation. These judgments in scientific research could find a more effective incrimination of the positions proposed by the authors in practice.

This article is devoted to the concept of criminal liability. It deals with its directions, functions, implementation, mandatory and structural elements.

International legal responsibility for crimes committed extends to the state apparatus that carried out illegal actions, including the personal responsibility of specific representatives of government structures that were directly involved in criminal acts. The official status of a person in the state hierarchy (head of State, head of Government, Minister of Defense, etc.) does not exempt him from criminal liability. International criminal liability applies to individuals regardless of their positions, membership in a particular State, or lack of citizenship. The legal basis for bringing individuals to justice under international criminal law is gross violations of generally accepted norms for the protection of victims of hostilities, violations of the laws and customs of warfare, and the commission of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity.