Abstract
The article is devoted to the definition of which is debatable. The author examines in detail all available literature approaches to determining the very specified act, identifying its typical features and formulating appropriate definitions. The article discloses the contents of the species of the object of the crime, namely environmental safety as a set of social relations that characterizes the functioning of natural environmental systems, natural and natural anthropogenous objects, natural elements of habitat (environment) of the human, precluding harming his health, property and other vital interests. Environmental safety characterizes favourable environment without negative impact of economic and other activities, emergencies, man-made disasters and their consequences. Accordingly, the environmental crime is defined as socially dangerous criminal act, which infringe on the environmental safety (favourable environment) and causes (or poses danger of) criminal law consequences. The article also discusses controversial issues of the subject of an environmental crime. The author concludes that it is environment as an aggregation of environmental components, natural, natural anthropog-enous objects, as well as man-made objects. The understanding of an environmental crime as violation of the vital interests of a person, the rules of environmental protection, mentioned in the literature, is erroneous, which entails distortion of these circumstances and their values in the composition of a crime in general and environmental crime in particular.
Highlights
The article is devoted to the definition of "environmental crime", which is debatable
The article discloses the contents of the species of the object of the crime, namely environmental safety as a set of social relations that characterizes the functioning of natural environmental systems, natural and natural anthropogenous objects, natural elements of habitat of the human, precluding harming his health, property and other vital interests
The environmental crime is defined as socially dangerous criminal act, which infringe on the environmental safety and causes criminal law consequences
Summary
Раскрыто содержание видового объекта преступления, в качестве которого предлагается признавать экологическую безопасность — совокупность общественных отношений, характеризующих функционирование естественных экологических систем, природных и природно-антропогенных объектов, естественных элементов среды обитания (условий существования) человека, исключающее причинение вреда его здоровью, собственности и иным жизненно важным интересам. Экологическое преступление определяется как общественно опасное, виновное, уголовно наказуемое деяние, которое посягает на экологическую безопасность (благоприятную окружающую среду) и влечет (или создает угрозу наступления) предусмотренные уголовным законом последствия.
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