| Abstract [eng] |
The title of the master‘s thesis – qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences. While analyzing various research projects of Lithuanian and foreign scientists on the subject- matter of qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences, it was observed that more comprehensive research was not performed. Thereby, this paper, invoking common research methods usable in criminal law (such as comparative, analytical (and/or periphrastic), historical, linguistic and the method of critique), is designed to consider theoretical fundamentals of qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences as well as their problematic aspects; to educe the peculiarities of qualifying features as well as their arrangement in the text scrip of the Criminal Code, considering to the statements, introduced in the legislation of the criminal law; to determine boundaries between simple, qualified and/or privileged corpus delicti of criminal offences; to improve qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences. Equally, it was pursued to review historically changeable approach to qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences. The maximum attention in this paper is granted to qualified corpus delicti of criminal offences as well as to the peculiarities of the structure of qualified corpus delicti. It should be noted that not only criminal offences have qualified corpus delicti, but also it is presumed that misdemeanors might have qualified corpus delicti as well. There are also introduced the possibilities of differentiation of corpus delicti of criminal offences. Not only theoretical aspect of the problematic matter is introduced in this paper, but also the difficulties that occur in the court practice while clarifying the subject- matter of the qualifying features and peculiarities of qualification of the deeds. |
