Науковий вісник Національної академії внутрішніх справ (Jun 2021)
Problems of releasing a person from criminal liability in connection with bail
Abstract
The purpose of the study is the determination of the possibility of a person’s releasing from criminal liability in connection with his/her bailment to another subject rather than the bailment to a collective of a company, an institution, an organization (in particular, to a labor collective formed by an individual as an entrepreneur), and also making the appropriate proposals for improvement of the legislation. Methodology. The methodological basis of the research is a dialectical-material method of scientific cognition of social and legal phenomena, as well as general scientific and special methods of legal science, in particular: systematic-structural; comparative-legal; logical-legal (dogmatic); statistical. The scientific novelty of the conducted research is contained in the provement of the possibility, within the borders of the current legislation, to release a person from criminal responsibility on the basis of bailment to a labor collective, formed by an individual as an entrepreneur, as well as in the justification of the expediency of preservation the institution of release from criminal responsibility in the new Criminal Code of Ukraine. In the new Criminal Code of Ukraine, which is now on the stage of the active development, the institution of release from criminal responsibility must necessarily find its place. One of the important components of the abovementioned institution should be the release of a person from criminal responsibility in connection with his/her bailment. In this case, the law should establish that a subject which takes a person on bail may be a collective of a legal entity or its separate subdivision, as well as a labor collective formed by an individual entrepreneur (if the accused person is a member of the relevant collective). Conclusions. The list of the bailment subjects can be extended by the legislator at the expense of persons who deserve confidence and special trust. Such persons, when applying to the court with a request, must take written obligations, the content of which are the subject to the clear legislative regulation (with a mandatory list of specific control measures to monitor the behavior of the person released from criminal responsibility)
