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CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIALLY DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES RESULTING FROM ABUSE OF AUTHORITY BY EMPLOYEES OF A PRIVATE SECURITY ORGANIZATION

https://doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2025-1-74-140-148

Abstract

Introduction. Nowadays non-governmental law enforcement agencies provide enormous assistance to government agencies in maintaining law and order at the facilities entrusted to them. This is especially important due to the shortage of police personnel and the Russian National Guard. At the same time, the activities of employees in the private security services sector are not unlimited and are regulated by special legislation. The central place in it is given to criminal liability under Art. 203 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, designed to significantly restrain the manifestations of criminal activity of these persons. The elements of the crime provided for in Art. 203 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, according to the legal construction of the objective side of the crime, are material, and therefore the occurrence of socially dangerous consequences of this crime is an obligatory sign that this crime can be considered legally completed. In this regard, the socially dangerous consequences of this crime should rightfully be recognized as a supporting feature requiring separate legal understanding and analysis.
Materials and methods. There are presented a set of general scientific and specific scientific methods of understanding the legal reality in the declared area of criminal law. The general scientific methods were: analysis and synthesis, analogy, induction, deduction, generalization, comparison, comparison. The specialized specific scientific methods of the study were: formal-legal, technical-legal, comparative-legal, system-structural, structural-multifunctional, content analysis.
Research results. The conducted analysis allowed us to establish the technical-legal, doctrinal and law enforcement problems of securing, interpreting and implementing the material grounds for bringing employees of private security organizations to criminal liability for harm caused by their actions to public relations, benefits and interests protected by criminal law. The most complex issues of qualification of socially dangerous consequences that may occur as a result of committing a crime under Art. 203 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are considered. The article highlights the shortcomings and gaps in the judicial interpretation of the evaluative categories of "significant harm" and "serious consequences". The ways of legislative improvement of the norm under consideration are proposed.
Discussion and conclusion. Socially dangerous consequences in the structure of Art. 203 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are a mandatory feature, without which criminal liability cannot be fully implemented. In this regard, their legal analysis deserves special close attention. The study established that the main categories that the legislator associated with socially dangerous consequences for the crime in question are significant harm (Part 1 of Art. 203 of the Criminal Code) and serious consequences (Part 2 of Art. 203 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, none of them is disclosed in the criminal legislation itself, but received only a judicial interpretation, which, however, is not without shortcomings and has introduced even more controversial ones. In fact, extremely important socially dangerous consequences in the form of a violation of the bodily integrity of the victim, or causing him minor or moderate harm to health, remained outside the qualification. It should be noted that these are some of the most common consequences of illegal abuse of power by private security employees that are encountered in practice. Thus, due to the particular importance of these aspects, the study summarizes the need to change the legislative consolidation of the category of "grave consequences" in the structure of Article 203 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and expresses the author's opinion on the issues of their qualification and interpretation.

About the Author

A. L. Ermаchenko
Vladimir State University named after A. G. and N. G. Stoletov
Russian Federation

Artem L. Ermаchenko, postgraduate student 

Vladimir



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Ermаchenko A.L. CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIALLY DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES RESULTING FROM ABUSE OF AUTHORITY BY EMPLOYEES OF A PRIVATE SECURITY ORGANIZATION. Journal of Law and Administration. 2025;21(1):140-148. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2025-1-74-140-148

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