«COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY» AND MILITARY CRIMES: LEGAL ASSESSMENT ISSUES

Valentina Lisauskaite

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UDC 343.3

«COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY» AND MILITARY CRIMES: LEGAL ASSESSMENT ISSUES

Published в Vestnik of the East Siberian institute of the Ministry of internal affairs of the Russian Federation · Issue 1, 2025 · Pages 222–239 · Rubrics: Criminal law sciences

Received: 19.11.2024 Accepted: 19.12.2024 Published: 02.04.2025

Authors

Valentina Lisauskaite ¹ iD

1 East Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia (kafedra ugolovnogo prava i kriminologii, professor)
from 01.01.2023 until now Irkutsk, Irkutsk region, Russian Federation

ABSTRACT

Introduction: An analysis of war crimes and the peculiarities of their qualification indicates the presence of not only responsibility directly for the persons who committed these acts, but also for the persons under whose command the criminals were. International criminal law establishes the institution of “command responsibility,” in which a commander or superior is always responsible for the criminal actions of his subordinates. Therefore, within the framework of the study, the author reveals the theoretical features of this institution and the problems of its legal regulation from the perspective of national criminal legislation. Materials and methods: The work materials are the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, other national legal acts, the Statute of the International Criminal Court and materials of judicial precedents of international tribunals. Methods of description, analysis, comparison and a systematic research method were used. Results of the study: The results of the work were a final assessment of the analyzed materials regarding the need to make changes and consolidate special offenses that provide for the responsibility of the commander and superior in the event of their subordinates committing war crimes, taking into account the specifics of the subject itself and the nature of the failure to fulfill their powers. Findings and conclusions: Allowed the author to identify the shortcomings of the current criminal legislation and formulate recommendations for changing it.

KEYWORDS

war crimes command responsibility responsibility of commanders the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation international treaties of the Russian Federation

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Authors:

1. East Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia (kafedra ugolovnogo prava i kriminologii, professor)
from 01.01.2023 until now
Irkutsk, Irkutsk region, Russian Federation

Type:

Article

Pages:

from 222 to 239

Status:

Published

Subject area:

UDC 343.3

Language:

Russian

Keywords:

war crimes, command responsibility, responsibility of commanders, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, international treaties of the Russian Federation

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