Challenges at Сlassifying Acts of Religious Feelings Defamation
УДК 343.42, ББК 67.408.1
Abstract
The article concentrates on the study of the special features of the disposition of paragraph 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from the legal and linguistic point of view. The article describes the problem of the legislator using subjective and evaluative categories when determining the objective and mental elements of the analyzed crime. The authors draw attention to the issue of linguistic ambiguity of some terms which leads to the problems with the classification of a crime. It happens because law enforcers don’t have enough legal methods for the correct interpretation of the actions of the person who is accused of committing an act of crime. Evaluative character of such categories as “publicity”, “feelings”, “believers” and “defamation” doesn’t let correctly differentiate offences and crimes specified in paragraph 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from some other crimes and offences specified in both the Criminal Code and the Code of the Administrative Offences. The article is a case study of paragraph 1 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The specific features of the acts that are classified as defamation are studied. The authors focus on differentiating defamation from blasphemy, religious hatred and hostility. The authors make assumptions about improving the legislation pertaining to religious feelings defamation. In particular, they put forward the idea to enshrine the interpretation of some terms in the Russian Federation Supreme Court Decisions or in the special note to Article 148. clarifying some categories, which can make classifying acts as crimes easier for the law enforcers.
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