ARMAN BABAKHANYAN

Judge of the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction of Armavir Province of the RA,

Lecturer at the Chair of Criminal Law of YSU

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.4-6-84

Annotation.

This article is dedicated to some key issues in the criminal-legal fight against the participants of the thieves’ world and persons associated with it. In the article, the author referred to some issues of the objective side, the subjective side, the negative characteristic of the corpus delicti provided for in Article 324 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, as well as some issues of exemption from criminal liability in cases of positive post-criminal behavior, because some of the approaches taken by the legislator in relation to them are problematic, which is why this research is so relevant.

As a result, the author came to the conclusion that instead of being involved in the implementation of the goals pursued by the thieves’ world, it is necessary to provide for criminal liability for being involved in the activities of the thieves’ world and to provide for it in a separate article. In addition, the author found that there is no need to provide for the organization of a gathering of the thieves’ world or participation in it as separate manifestations of the objective side in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia.

The author also presented proposals aimed at improving the negative characteristic of the corpus delicti provided for in Article 324 of the Criminal Code of the RA, as well as providing imperative incentive norms exempting from criminal liability on the condition of demonstrating positive post-crime behavior in Articles 324-325 of the Criminal Code of the RA.

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