Yakovleva O.A. The Criminal Evaluation of Socially Dangerous Consequences of Environmental Crimes (Through the Example of Illegal Logging of Forest Stands)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2021.1.2
Olga A. Yakovleva, Candidate of Sciences (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, Volgograd State University, Prosp. Universitetsky, 100, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.ord/0000-0002-6833-5005 I
ntroduction: a criminally punishable act causes certain changes in the objects of criminal legal protection, i.e. it entails the onset of socially dangerous consequences. Specifically, this is expressed in harming the legally protected interests of the individual, society or the state, or in creating an immediate threat of harm. The consequences of environmental crimes are the result of exposure to natural objects and are harmful to nature and environmental safety. The aim of the work is to give a criminal evaluation of the socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes. Methods: the methodological framework for the study includes a whole range of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the fundamentally important ones are the methods of system analysis, synthesis. Results: the paper presents a criminal-legal analysis of the socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes. The classification of these consequences is defined. The necessity of the correct formulation in the law of the attribute characterizing the socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes is emphasized. Conclusions: the consequences of environmental crimes are reflected in the object of encroachment, changes in the state of the natural environment that provides vital human interests. The socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes are physical, economic, and environmental in nature. They act as: 1) a crime-forming feature; 2) a qualifying feature; 3) are recognized as the basis for the intersectoral differentiation of responsibility and the differentiation of criminal responsibility.
Key words: ecology, crime, environmental crimes, illegal logging, forest plantations.
Citation. Yakovleva O.A. The Criminal Evaluation of Socially Dangerous Consequences of Environmental Crimes (Through the Example of Illegal Logging of Forest Stands). Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2021, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 14-18. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2021.1.2
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