Evolution of the Russian Criminal Legislation on Responsibility for Murder by Mother of her Newborn Child
https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.146.1.083-096
Abstract
Without knowledge of history, without a deep retrospective analysis of any legal institution it is impossible to imagine the ways for its further improvement. This is quite true of the institute of murder by mother of her newborn child. This paper attempts to investigate the evolution of criminal responsibility for the murder of a newborn child by the mother, to establish the attitude of the legislator to this type of crime at different stages of development of the Russian criminal legislation — from the time of Ancient Russia to the present. To this end, the main historical legislative acts on the regulation of criminal law against this act are analyzed.
The problem of the considered type of murder is extremely relevant. In the Russian doctrine of criminal law there are two positions concerning Art. 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation providing the softened criminal responsibility for this crime. According to one of them, the article is relevant but it needs to be improved; according to the second point of view, it is subject to exclusion and the guilt of such a murder should be criminalized on general grounds for a classified murder. The author of the article speaks in favor of the latter point of view.
About the Author
V. B. Khatuev
Chechen State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Khatuev Vaha Bukhadyvovich, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Law Faculty
364900, Russia, Grozny, Kievskaya ul., d. 33
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Khatuev V.B. Evolution of the Russian Criminal Legislation on Responsibility for Murder by Mother of her Newborn Child. Lex Russica. 2019;(1):83-96. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.146.1.083-096
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