Terrorist act: quality of criminal law

Abstract

One of the means of countering terrorism is criminal law, and the eff tiveness of this counteraction depends, among other things, on the quality of the criminal law norm on a terrorist act. First of all, responsibility for a terrorist act is unreasonably equated with responsibility for the threat of its commission. It is necessary to separate the terrorist act and the threat of its commission according to different norms and establish different penalties for them.

The evaluative sign of “significant property damage” in the CC RF is defined differently in the compositions of various crimes or is not defined at all. He does not express an increased degree of public danger of a terrorist act and cannot characterize its objective side either as a potential (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code) or as a real (paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code) consequence of this crime. It is advisable to replace it with signs such as catastrophes and major accidents.