Criminal law measures to combat provocation of crimes and falsification of criminals

The article examines the criminal-legal aspects of the actual problem of protecting the inviolability of the individual from the unacceptable activity of state representatives in the exercise of law enforcement functions. Topical issues for theory and practice of the legal nature of the provocation of crime and the falsification of criminals remain debatable. There are no unified approaches to the qualification of provocative and inflammatory actions and cases of "throwing" objects to citizens, for the turnover of which criminal responsibility arises, there is no theoretical justification for the criminal legal status of persons provoked to commit a crime. The article shows that the qualification of common cases of provocation of crimes and falsification of criminals according to the norms providing for liability for abuse of official authority, falsification of evidence or the results of operational investigative activities should be recognized as not accurate. At the same time, responsibility for these actions committed by subjects who are not officials, and without the participation of the latter, has not been established at all. The author proposes a draft criminal law provision providing for liability for inducing to commit a crime or its staging in order to illegally create grounds for criminal prosecution. The paper questions the approach according to which a person provoked by law enforcement officers to commit a crime is not subject to criminal liability regardless of the specifics of the encroachment.

Keywords

provocation of a crime, falsification of a criminal, abuse of official authority, falsification of the results of operational investigative activities, controlled crime, provoked person.

Received

15.07.2020

Publication date

17.11.2021

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26105

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GOST	Borkov V. Criminal law measures to combat provocation of crimes and falsification of criminals // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2021. – Isuue 10 C. 127-134 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520017267-4-1 (circulation date: 30.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017267-4
MLA	Borkov, Viktor "Criminal law measures to combat provocation of crimes and falsification of criminals." Gosudarstvo i pravo 10 (2021):127-134. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017267-4
APA	Borkov V. (2021). Criminal law measures to combat provocation of crimes and falsification of criminals. Gosudarstvo i pravo (10), pp.127-134 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017267-4

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