Justification of Establishment of the Institute of Criminal Responsibility of Legal Entities in the Republic of Armenia

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the discussion of the mechanisms of combating the criminal acts of legal entities in accordance with the legal norms of the Republic of Armenia and the presentation of the best model of such a combat. Based on the fact that legal entities are full subjects of law, and the fact that at present legal entities operate in almost all areas of our life, affecting the rights and legitimate interests of individuals, the paper emphasizes the importance of protecting society from possible criminal activities of legal entities. Considering the existence of branches of law in our country and their autonomy, the justification of the choice of the criminal method of liability for the criminal activities of legal entities has been discussed in the article. The choice of the criminal method of liability in the article was justified both in the context of the logic of domestic legal regulations and the requirements of international legal documents. The work also touches upon the possibility of a legal entity to be considered the subject of a crime, presents proposals aimed at improving the norms that determine the criminal liability of legal entities, which, in our opinion, will make the fight against criminal activity of legal entities completer and more systemic.