Legal Issues of Counteractions to Encouraging Murders and Suicides

Abstract

The article is devoted to researching criminal legal problems of regulation of responsibility for declining and assisting in committing suicides as well as for organizing activities related to the propaganda of murders and suicides. New articles of the Criminal Code need in improvement. Besides, outside the legal framework there remains the organization of activities aimed at encouraging the commission of the murder. The urgency of the issues is due to the fact that, according to statistical information and research, the number of suicides remains at a high level, and qualitative indicators changing towards increasing the number of victims among minors. The number of “motiveless” acts of aggression is growing, including at social infrastructure facilities provoked not without the participation of communities of social networks and channels of messengers of violent subjects. For the purpose of the study, the authors focused on the development of recommendations for improving criminal legislation taking into account the recent changes made to it in the fight against inducement and the promotion of suicide, as well as the great role of social networks and messengers in people's lives. During the research, the methodological basis was the dialectical method of cognition because it allowed evaluating the subject of research in connection with the norms of criminal law and social phenomena. Such scholar methods, as comparative legal, normative dogmatic method and content analysis were applied with the help of which it became possible to analyze social phenomena in the context of their legal regulation. The article analyzes the provisions of criminal law doctrine regarding the problems of countering the external influence on committing suicide and murder. The study of forensic investigation allowed us to identify modern qualitative changes of such influence. In the course of the study, the authors concluded that it is possible to combine articles 110 and 110.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation because they contain significant similarities, and the perpetrator in the course of their execution tends to the same result. The authors also proposed a version of the expanded version of article 110.2 of the Criminal Code, covering the organization of activities aimed at encouraging not only suicide, but also murders.