PURPOSE AND MOTIVE AS SIGNS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article contains a comprehensive scientific and theoretical analysis of motives as important signs of the subjective side of criminal offenses against environment. It is confirmed that the designated categories play a key role in revealing the internal essence of criminally unlawful behavior, which reflects mental processes that convey acceptance decisions about the commission of a crime, and also indicate the directness of the subject’s activity. The ability to understand “motive” and purpose has been established, their interconnections and functional significance in the structure of the subjective side of the criminal offense have been established. It has been determined that criminal offenses against environment are characterized by the dominance of covetous motives associated with the pursuit of economic gain, the illegal extraction of natural resources, and the minimization of expenditures on improvement of environmental standards and improvement of environmental regulations. It has now been proven that the motivational sphere of such offenses is complex and rich, and in some cases, service, organizational, psychological and social officials, including legal nihilism, low level of ecological culture and inadequacy of the system of state control. It is clear that purpose-criminal offenses against the wicked specify the motive and are reflected in the achieved material result or unique profit, however, in recent episodes it may be associated with security the functioning of the subjects of government in the minds of crisis chambers, frozen under the hour of war. It is emphasized that the correct establishment of the mark and motive is of great importance for the criminal legal qualification of the act, the individualization of punishment and the disaggregation of effective criminological approaches to crime. It has been concluded that the study of motivational and goal-oriented characteristics of environmental offenses allows us to better understand their determinants, identify typical patterns of behavior of offenders and formulate complex approaches against such manifestations in the current minds of the development of marriage.