Content of Socially Dangerous Consequences of a Criminal Act

Abstract

The article introduces the problem of socially dangerous consequences. Legal studies reveal no uniform approach to the definition of socially dangerous consequences. The author elaborates on the definition of socially dangerous consequences, describes their signs, and defines such concepts as their essence and content, as well as the object of encroachment. Socially dangerous consequences are connected with the criminal act and the object of crime, so the author describes their interdependence, mutual influence, and the derivativeness of socially dangerous consequences from the criminal act. This derivation makes it possible to transfer the signs of the criminal act to the socially dangerous consequences it causes. These signs include: public danger, social character, negativity, and objectivity. The complex of signs of socially dangerous consequences makes up their content. The characteristics of the object of encroachment and the structure of the object demonstrate a one-sided connection of socially dangerous consequences with the object of crime. The signs of socially dangerous consequences result from the signs of the object of encroachment. The author describes the signs of socially dangerous consequences derived from the object of encroachment, as well as the motives for their allocation. The features of each of the indicated signs are irremovability, measurability, heterogeneity, and multiplicity. All the above signs, derived from both the socially dangerous act and the object of crime, belong to socially dangerous consequences. The signs of socially dangerous consequences can be divided into direct and indirect, which together make up the content of the socially dangerous consequences.