The genesis of crime in the legal content of corpus delicti

Crime can be considered as an event in public life and as a socially dangerous act. As an event, a crime includes the act, its object, subject, and consequences. As an act, it includes only action and inaction, consisting of objective and subjective elements. This understanding corresponds to the legislative definition of crime in Article 14 of the Criminal Code. The commission of a crime leads to the situation when public relations, which have become the object of criminal encroachment, are not only violated, but also transformed. The offender not only violates social relations, but also, by transforming them, receives the benefit or other satisfaction from its commission. Former social relations cease to exist and are replaced by new social relations. If, before committing a crime, they embodied the unity of interests of the majority of the country population, society and the state, then after a crime was committed, they, by changing their content, express the interests of the person guilty of its commission. Social justice in the newly formed relations is replaced by social injustice. At the same time, the opposition of personal interests to the interests of other persons, society or the state is embodied in objective reality. All this affects on the content of criminal consequences, which, like a crime, combine in their structure both objective and subjective phenomena - the objective and subjective elements of the new social relations resulting from the commission of the crime. The genesis of a crime and personal interests opposed to public interests through the causal and guilty connection of a criminal act with criminal consequences affect not only its content, but also its scope. The author concludes that, from the point of view of a systematic approach to the study of phenomena, corpus delicti is a classical system, which has links between its elements and connecting its elements with adjacent systems. These links form a qualitative originality of the phenomenon under analysis. Corpus delicti includes such elements and links, the interaction of which with each other and with the environment determines the public danger of a crime. The public danger in this case is determined not by the combination of the public danger of individual elements of the act and their external circumstances, but by their unity.

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