Issues in the Substantive Legal Defense of Defendants Having been Subject to Entrapment in the Course of Investigation
( Pp. 165-169)
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Engelgardt Artur Avgustovich
kand. yurid. nauk. Dolzhnost: docent. Mesto raboty: Nacionalnyy issledovatelskiy universitet «Vysshaya shkola ekonomiki». Podrazdelenie: kafedra ugolovnogo prava i kriminalistiki
National Research University “The Higher School of Economics”
National Research University “The Higher School of Economics”
Abstract:
This article explores the issues related to the legal implications that arise when law enforcement investigators violate the prohibition to instigate, induce, or incite people directly or directly to commit unlawful acts. National legal scholarship has dedicated significant amount of attention to this issue with regard to criminal responsibility for corruption and illicit traffic in narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances. Nevertheless, only few studies have dealt with entrapment as a complex issue important for many other types of crimes apart from the ones mentioned above. In any case, this holds true for works authored by B.V. Volzhenkin, A.B. Groshev, L. Lobanova, V. S. Komissarov, A.V. Shmonin, P.S. Yani, and others. The scope of this article did not allow for a detailed analysis of provocation and entrapment techniques employed by law enforcement agencies. The issues posed by the topic are analyzed from a systemic and functional perspective based on the statutory and case law approaches to entrapment. This method was chosen under the consideration that entrapment presents an objective phenomenon. The centerpiece of this article deals with the legal characterization of the behavior of the defendants having been subject to entrapment. The arguments presented allow the following conclusions: (a) entrapment and its substantive law characteristic merit more scholarly attention and should not be seen merely as a form of instigation; (b) case law offers a number of valuable guidelines helping distinguish between a lawful experiment and provocation; (c) statutory criminal law could be improved by introducing special concepts describing certain forms of entrapment as an absolute criminal law defense [circumstance precluding wrongfulness].
How to Cite:
Engelgardt A.A., (2015), ISSUES IN THE SUBSTANTIVE LEGAL DEFENSE OF DEFENDANTS HAVING BEEN SUBJECT TO ENTRAPMENT IN THE COURSE OF INVESTIGATION. Gaps in Russian Legislation, 5 => 165-169.
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Keywords:
operatively-search activity, provocative-inflammatory action, the distinction between legitimate experiment and provocation, crime, the circumstance excluding criminality of act.
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