Pozharskiy A.Yu. Vehicular crime: concept and attributes

Abstract: The subject of this research is the concept and attributes of vehicular crime, which are considered debatable within the theory of criminal law. A special attention is given to the fact that the literature is yet to present a generally accepted definition of these acts. In many ways it is explained by the approach towards the definition of the object of crime – broad and narrow. In the first case, vehicular crime is any crime that involves a vehicle; in the second – when the vehicle is the object of a crime. The author thoroughly examines the aspect of the topic such as the change in the criminal legislation beginning with the enactment of the Criminal Code of RSFSR of 1926. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the attributes of vehicular crime are determined based on the mechanism of its commission. The author comes to a conclusion that a vehicular crime is a punishable offence, committed in the area of interaction between human and the vehicle that violates traffic safety or use of a vehicle as a complex system, or violation of the conditions of ensuring passive safety of a vehicle during its manufacturing, which carries criminal consequences as provided by law.

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