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Gennady Nazarenko, Alexandra Sitnikova y Andrey Baybarin
Institution of Complicity in a Crime: Comparative-Legal Interpretation
of all participants in the commission of a crime. Each accomplice realizes
the socially dangerous nature of the act, foresees criminal consequences,
and wishes or deliberately allows them, pursuing criminal goals and having
common intentions. At present, based on the analysis of the norms on
the institution of complicity in criminal law, it can be concluded that it
is important to apply it correctly. The theory and practice of criminal law
know various forms of joint participation of several persons in criminal
activity — complicity, indirect execution (or iniction), careless complicity,
involvement in a crime, joint participation in a crime of persons in the
absence of joint intent (mutual awareness) between them (Gunadi, 2020).
The value of the institution of complicity lies in ensuring effective criminal
legal protection of public relations from group criminal encroachments, as
well as creating an effective legal mechanism for the individualization of
responsibility and punishment of members of criminal groups. Based on
the above, it should be recognized that one of the strategic directions of
modern criminal law policy is to further improve the legislative structures
of the institutions of complicity in the criminal laws of states to counteract
group crime more effectively.
1. Methods
The legal method was used in this study, including legal and technical
methodology and methods of interpretation of the law. The legal and
technical method was used in the analysis of rulemaking. The system
of the code and each of its articles must comply with certain rules for
constructing the disposition and sanction of norms to be clear, direct, and
logically consistent. The interpretation of the law is possible in the way of
understanding the meaning and legal form – grammatical, logical, and
comparative and in terms of volume – authentic, expansive, and restrictive.
The criminal-statistical method was widely used, which is characterized
as the knowledge of the qualitative originality of criminal-legal phenomena
and concepts through quantitative indicators. This method was used
to generalize and quantify, for example, norms, their dispositions and
sanctions, the structure of punish ability, and criminal records.
The study used a systematic method that allowed researching criminal
law phenomena and concepts as systems, i.e., an integral set consisting of
subsystems and elements. The method was used in the analysis of lawmaking,
law enforcement and construction theory, knowledge, application of such
system institutions as criminal law, principles of law, crime, guilt, multiple
crimes, complicity, exemption from criminal liability, and punishment.
The principle of consistency should correspond to the location of sections,
chapters, and norms in the text of the code. The criminal code is the macro
system. The microsystem is a norm, the disposition of which describes the
corpus delicti, and the sanction is the type and amount of punishment.