Legislative Definition of Extreme Necessity Needs to Be Supplemented
Abstract
The article considers the development of extreme necessity, one of the circumstances excluding the criminality of a deed. The transformation of its legal definition in terms of the sufficiency and completeness for the law enforcement is analyzed. The comparative legal analysis of the criminal legislation of foreign countries, former republics of the Soviet Union is carried out with regard to the regulation of extreme necessity. The insufficient legal regulation of the definition of extreme necessity is identified in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In some cases it obliges the law enforcement agent to proceed not from its legal definition, but from the practice of the law enforcement and theory of the criminal law. Thus the law does not regulate cases of unsuccessful extreme necessity. It does not provide for a list of the circumstances that significantly affect a legal assessment of the infliction of harm in a state of extreme necessity and does not contain a criminal law assessment of the actions of the person who created a dangerous situation and then harms legally protected objects. In addition the imperfection in the definition of exceeding the limits of extreme necessity is pointed out. The analysis of the specialized literature and foreign legislation allowed the author to conclude that the legislative definition of extreme necessity needs to be supplemented.
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