Akbolatova Maral Eltaevna
Senior teacher of Department
of Criminal law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Law faculty, Al-Farabi
Kazakh National University
URGENT PROBLEMS OF CRIMINAL
LIABILITY FOR ESCAPE
Annotation: In article problematic issues of
qualification of violent escape from places of detention, from under arrest or
from custody are considered.
Keywords: violent escape, places of commission of
escape, the armed escape, society, isolation, responsibility.
The most widespread type of crimes made in places of
detention are escapes. Escapes cause reasonable concern of citizens, disbelief
them in ability of the state to provide reliable isolation of criminals,
dangerous to society.
The essence of escape from the place of detention, its
danger to society is expressed in counteraction to execution of the purposes
and problems of justice connected with realization of punishment in the form of
imprisonment or measures of criminal procedure coercion, in undermining authority
of judicial bodies and creation of obstacles for their normal activity.
Places of commission of escapes treat: correctional
facilities (corrective labor colonies of the general, strictly and especially
the mode, colonies settlements, educational colonies, prisons), and also places
of keeping of the arrested military personnel – a guardroom. Various vehicles
used for convoy of suspects, defendants, the defendants taken as a measure of
restraint into custody in court, in the camera of the investigator, prosecutor
or person making inquiry and also the convicts directed to the place of serving
sentence belong to spaces of stay for guards.
Escape from custody is leaving from a convoy in the
hall of court session, by production of various investigative actions, for
example, of an investigative experiment, departure to the place of commission
of crime. It is necessary to emphasize that the arrangement of IU is understood
not only as the territory of colony (prison) limited to system of technical
means of protection. Local governments determine by the decision the territory
borders adjacent to security constructions where regime requirements are
established.
Escape from places of detention, from custody is among
crimes with formal structure. The moment of the termination of a crime the
moment of leaving of the appropriate place of imprisonment and run out of
control of administration admits jurisprudence. Leaving of the appropriate
place is stated not earlier than the person leaves his territory, will overcome
the last protecting construction or other element of protection.
However O. W. Masur considers that escape from the
place of detention has to be referred to material corpus delicti at which a
criminal consequence is that the person obliged to be in the place of detention
and to serve the imposed sentence in the form of imprisonment as a result of
commission of escape appears outside the place of detention, out of the sphere
of protection and control of him from administration of correctional facility and
at the same time in advance committed crime doesn't serve sentence.
In our opinion, the design of structure of the studied
crime concerns to formal structure as in the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan there
is no instruction on socially dangerous consequences as an obligatory sign of
the objective party. A number of authors fairly consider that escape can have
stages of preparation and attempt".
In our opinion, the design of structure of the studied
crime concerns to formal structure as in the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan there
is no instruction on socially dangerous consequences as an obligatory sign of
the objective party. A number of authors fairly consider that escape can have
stages of preparation and attempt".
Problematic issue of qualification of escape from
places of detention, from under arrest or from custody his reference to number
of the lasting crimes is. In jurisprudence, as well as in scientific
publications, there is no unity of opinions on this matter. Many scientists
fairly refer escape to the lasting crimes. And it involves a number of
consequences. The limitation period of criminal prosecution is estimated since
then when the made escape has ceased on the listed above bases to evade from
the investigation, court or serving sentence. O. W. Masur agreeing that escape
is lasting a crime allocates two periods of this criminal act. "At the
same time directly escape is time period, since the moment of commission of
escape and including the moment when in actions of the guilty person there is
an ended structure of escape. Escape on this time span is escape in the true
sense of this word as during this period of time the guilty person carries out
the objective party of escape. The second period of time, since the moment when
in actions of the convict there is already an ended structure of escape and
until his detention or surrender - it is not escape in the true sense any more
of this word as the ended corpus delict took place earlier, is a special
criminal state in which there is a guilty person after commission of escape by
him. This special criminal state is in a direct causal relationship with
perfect escape, and it has criminal and legal value as the guilty person
continues to evade from serving sentence in the form of imprisonment.
Directly escape and the evasion following it from
serving sentence in the form of imprisonment represent uniform, continuous
process as they have internal unity and represent various forms of criminal
activity directed to achievement of the uniform purpose".
Other part of authors proved other position. So, N.Yu.Kuznetsova
considered that escape from places of detention and from under arrest by the
lasting crime isn't. It comes to an end right after leaving of places of
detention and arrest.
M.I.Bazhanov, sharing this position, I claimed that
"escape not lasting crime as he can't be identified with evasion from
serving sentence which in itself isn't punishable". Permission of this
controversial issue is possible only from a position of the analysis of signs
of the lasting crime. The lasting crime is characterized by three signs: -
continuity of negative impact on a crime object; - the continuity of
implementation of criminal action forming a peculiar criminal state and -
presence at the person of the purpose to commit continuously criminal action.
Escape from the place of detention, from under arrest or from custody contains all three signs. First, escape
violates the interests of justice from the moment of the end of escape and the
subsequent stay out of the place of detention as the court verdict isn't
executed on serving of imprisonment. E. T. Borisov correctly noted that the
interests of justice violated by escape continue to be broken by the subsequent
evasion from serving sentence.
Escape is carried out continuously and continuously
violates the interests of justice. In - the second, escape is continuously made
act begun with the moment of leaving of the place of detention. The essence of
the criminal action called by escape consists in evasion from execution of the court
verdict about appointment and serving sentence in the form of imprisonment.
Escape as one of evasion forms from serving of imprisonment is a certain state
– stay "is in hiding". Thirdly, the sign of the lasting crime, the
purpose on commission of continuous criminal action, is also characteristic of
escape from the place of detention, from - under arrest or from custody. The
convict to imprisonment carries out continuously this crime at a stage ended
with one purpose - to be at large and not to serve sentence according to the
court verdict. Use of violence and use of weapons are the one-act actions which
aren't possessing in itself signs of the lasting acts. However they in addition
characterize, in this case aggravate the main crime – escape from the place of
detention, from under arrest or from custody. Therefore this structure keeps
constructive signs of the main structure and represents the lasting crime.
Problematic issue of qualification of escape with use
of violence, life-threatening or health, and equally with use of weapons is the
question of his from actions of persons, disorganizing activity of the
institutions providing isolation from society. Violence at escape is way of
implementation of escape and is applied for to facilitate his commission. In
disorganization of activity of the institutions providing to isolation from
society violence it is applied with the purpose to prevent correction of the
convict or to revenge for assistance of establishment to administration
rendered to them. Also real set of these crimes when in the course of
preparation for escape violent acts have been made isn't excluded.
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