Teška ubistva u krivičnim zakonodavstvima Poljske, Rusije i Baltičkih država

Abstract

Violent offences directed against bodily integrity of other persons are indisputably considered as the most dangerous forms and aspects of criminality. They are known as the offences against bodily integrity or “blood offences”. Due to its significance, nature, characteristics and consequences, the crime of murder, for which all contemporary legislations prescribe the most severe types and measures of punishment, particularly stands out among these criminal offences. There are three types of murder. They include: a) ordinary (common) murder, b) murder committed under mitigating circumstances and c) murder committed under aggravating circumstances, for which the most severe punishment is prescribed. All contemporary criminal legislations, as a law of the Eastern-European states are familiar with various forms and aspects of the crime of murder under aggravating circumstances. Murders committed out of various (different) motives that inspired their perpetrators to cause the death of another person, particularly stand out among other types of murder. This paper discusses the term, contents, characteristics, forms and elements of the crime under aggravating circumstances in the criminal laws of Poland, Russia and Baltic state (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), from theoretical as well as practical aspect.