Public danger of breaches on epidemic security (conceptual issues)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of determining the public danger of epidemic safety and criminal misdemeanors, as the main feature of a criminal offense. The peculiarities of defining the criteria for determining socially dangerous consequences and the threat of their occurrence are highlighted, the categories of actions recognized as socially dangerous and resulting in criminal liability are investigated. The main scientific and practical approaches to understanding the main components of the public danger of encroachments on epidemic safety have been determined. It was determined that the criteria for recognizing relevant acts as socially dangerous are decisive when determining the grounds for criminal punishment of an offense. Undoubtedly, the public danger of an act is the most significant sign of a criminal offense. The absence of this sign means the absence of criminal-legal grounds for bringing a person to criminal responsibility. It is noted that in defining the concept of social danger, it is necessary, mainly, to indicate its social essence, its focus on the most valuable, main social relations protected by law and the occurrence of socially dangerous harm in their sphere. Public danger is the main, most significant feature of a crime, its defining property, inherent only to a crime. All other offenses can only be recognized as socially harmful. Ensuring sanitary-epidemic well-being is entrusted to the state, which carries it out through planned scientifically based prevention, treatment, localization and elimination of mass infectious diseases. Analysis of the criminogenic situation, the state of epidemic security, threats of a social and military nature against the background of radical transformations, assessments of the readiness of forces and means of public security and civil protection testify to the presence of a number of threats, negative trends and problems. The issues of ensuring epidemic safety in the modern conditions of the emergence of a real threat to the health of the population of the entire planet are gaining special relevance both at the international and national levels. The problem remains the insufficient level of the population's life safety culture and, as a result, their low awareness of the rules of behavior during the occurrence of various emergency situations.