No 2 (2016)

The article presents crimes against the safety of the environment, considered corruption crimes with blanket dispositions. At the same time it proposes to eliminate “use of official position” aggravating circumstance and enter the change on the part of the disposition, namely, to make the circumstance of bringing to administrative responsibility once in the past year a mandatory feature of the objective side of the offense, and fix administrative disciplinary and prejudice in the General Part of the Criminal Code of RA. Comparative legal study comparing the legislation of foreign states has been conducted on the topic, the differences in legislative securing have been disclosed, and opinions on them arose, presenting legal comments and justifications.

Money laundering and terrorist financing, as the transnational nature of the crime, are threats to national security. The article deals with the legislative, institutional and organizational measures preventing these kinds of crimes prescribed by the provisions of the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia and other sources.

The article describes the features, forms and spheres of interaction of bodies of state power and bodies of local self-government.

On the basis of research, law enforcement and human rights activity are defined as independent types of legal activities. The author analyzes the existing legal literature opinions, highlights the common and distinctive features of law-enforcement and human rights activity.

The article deals with the problem of classification of defects mechanism of civil-legal regulation of proprietary relations. Are allocated general and specific defects in the proposed group, as well as the corresponding sub-species.

The article examines the place and role of the legal responsibility of the public authorities. The conclusion is that it is the legal responsibility of the public authorities is one of the means of protection against arbitrariness, maintains the balance in the system of checks and balances and ensure smooth implementation of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen in the modern society.

In spite of great quantity of scientific research works regarding the exemption from legal responsibility, both on industrial and on theoretical level, the scientists do not give the common theoretical meaning of this very scientific and legal category. In the article, the author examines the concept and the legal nature of exemption from the legal responsibility. Based on the etymology of word “exemption” and the legal nature of exemption from legal responsibility as a legal promotion the author formulates the definition of exemption from legal responsibility as provided by law (or in definite cases – agreement), the opportunity not to perform the duty of the offender to undergo condemnation, the restriction of the right of property or personal non-property and its realization in case of non-fulfilment of legal duties for the respect and execution of law requirements.

The article is devoted to the system of criminal penalties. The author analyzes the concept of the system, determined by the types of penalties and their features, special attention is paid to changes in the system of criminal punishment.

The author conducted research institute criminal liability as an important structural element of the system of criminal law institutions. The possibilities of classification of criminal law system. Also, given the definition of the Institute of Law, the criminal liability of the Institute and analyzed the general concepts. 

We consider the forms of criminalistic operations of the prosecutor in the pretrial and trial proceedings in criminal cases. The Concept of Legal Policy must take into account the needs of law enforcers.