| Abstract [eng] |
The master paper consists of two parts. The first part covers a detailed analysis of the compositions of crimes against human life. The second part features a culprit’s personality and investigates statistical data. The work reveals the conception of crimes against human life, discusses their development, provides the analysis of the elements of the main composition of crimes against human life (object and victim, the objective side, subject, the subjective side). The differences between the criminal laws of Russia, Poland, Germany, Latvia and Estonia are presented at comparative level. The paper includes a detailed analysis of each crime indicated in Chapter XVII of the Penal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. The work analyses the evidence classifying and privileging a murder both paying attention to the differences of the regulation of the countries abovementioned. The interesting aspect of the paper lies in the investigation of other crimes against human life, apart from qualified and privileged compositions of a crime. The compositions of reckless killing, instigating to commit a suicide or reducing to a suicide or help to commit a suicide are analysed. Furthermore, such issues as the issue of legal persons’ liability according to Part 4 Article 132 of the Penal Code, the separation between active euthanasia and help to commit a suicide. The conception of the culprit, its structural elements are revealed in the paper. On the basis of the data analysed, demographical – social features are discovered as well as the influence of psychological features on the culprits' behaviour are touched upon. |
