Criminal Liability of Legal Entities for Environmental Crimes: Foreign Experience for the Russian Legislature

Nikolay Makhonko, Elena Tarasova, Elena Abanina, Yulia Plotnikova

2021

Abstract

The article focuses on the problems of criminal liability of legal entities for environmental crimes in foreign countries and this institution implementation in the Russian Federation. To this end, the research is performed as a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of introducing criminal liability of legal entities as a result of linkages between criminal and environmental law. To achieve this goal, the international conventions and certain types of documents of the European Union on environmental protection (Directives and Regulations) were examined in research The substantiation of a unified approach to the creation of an integral legal system based on the principles of interdisciplinary unification and integration was based on the use of general scientific methods: structural-functional, probabilistic and case study methods. The results of the introduction of provisions on the criminal liability of legal entities for environmental crimes in the national Criminal Codes of Denmark, Norway, Poland, Finland, France are presented. The practice in the criminal standards application in respect of ecology in the United States of America is analyzed separately. It is noted that on most topical issues, national criminal laws are of a similar nature and have common approaches: scientifically grounded methods of applying criminal liability of legal entities and special methods of influencing their behavior. The necessity of a systematic approach to solving the problem of introducing criminal liability of legal entities for environmental crimes in the Russian Federation has been substantiated.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Makhonko N., Tarasova E., Abanina E. and Plotnikova Y. (2021). Criminal Liability of Legal Entities for Environmental Crimes: Foreign Experience for the Russian Legislature. In Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA, ISBN 978-989-758-532-6, pages 65-69. DOI: 10.5220/0010628900003152

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closa21,
author={Nikolay Makhonko and Elena Tarasova and Elena Abanina and Yulia Plotnikova},
title={Criminal Liability of Legal Entities for Environmental Crimes: Foreign Experience for the Russian Legislature},
booktitle={Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,},
year={2021},
pages={65-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010628900003152},
isbn={978-989-758-532-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,
TI - Criminal Liability of Legal Entities for Environmental Crimes: Foreign Experience for the Russian Legislature
SN - 978-989-758-532-6
AU - Makhonko N.
AU - Tarasova E.
AU - Abanina E.
AU - Plotnikova Y.
PY - 2021
SP - 65
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0010628900003152