Criminal and legal protection of national security: Problems of systematization of crimes

The chief idea of criminal law is to protect the individual, society, and the state from criminal encroachment. Defined by the legislator in the field of protection - the basics of national security, life and health, public safety, environment, etc. are subject to comprehensive research to improve the effectiveness of criminal law protection, which is of great practical importance. The foundations of national security are a multifaceted construction that requires detailed analysis. This work is devoted to the study of the conceptual foundations of systematization of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine as one of the fundamental aspects of the theoretical basis of the criminal law system. The work aims to study the conceptual foundations of the systematization of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine. The subject of study: problematic aspects of systematization of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine. The object of research: approaches to the systematization of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine. The authors used the following methods: observation, generalization, analysis, synthesis, experiment, formalization. As a result of the study, the universal definition of national security, the feasibility of a system of crimes against the foundations of national security of Ukraine, determined as an experiment to develop subgroups under Section I of the Special Part of the Criminal Code

The criminal responsibility for defamation of knowingly innocent

The scientific article analyzes the acute discussion in law enforcement practice and procedural science of the problem of the possibility of criminal prosecution of a suspect, accused of defaming a knowingly innocent person in the commission of a crime. The theoretical basis of the article are scientific works on criminal law and criminal procedural law (both domestic researchers and foreign experts). A set of general scientific, special scientific and philosophical methods of scientific knowledge has been used while preparing the scientific article, in particular dialectical, historical, comparative, dogmatic (formal-logical), system-structural analysis, modeling. It is substantiated in the article that the behavior of the suspect, accused, which is manifested in slandering of a knowingly innocent person, does not constitute the right to freedom from self-disclosure. It is also proved that both freedom from self-disclosure and the right to defense in criminal proceedings must have certain limits, in particular, it is rights and interests of other subjects protected by criminal law. We  stated that the suspect or accused should be liable for misleading the court and pre-trial investigation bodies even if such deception was used to protect against the suspicion (or accusation), to avoid criminal liability