Controversial Issues on Corpus Delicti in the Field of Art in the Criminal Legislation of the Russian Federation
Yu. S. Kovtun · Actual Problems of Russian Law · 2020
The choice of the subject of research — the field of scientific knowledge related equally to both criminal law and the limitless world of art — is determined by the goal of finding out the content of modern criminal law policy in the field of art in Russia. In the paper, the author considers the main elements of art crimes existing in the national criminal law through the prism of the specifics of the art sphere, and reveals some shortcomings of legislative structures establishing responsibility for the corresponding crimes. The author expresses her position regarding the possibility and necessity of considering art as an independent and separate object of criminal law protection in criminal law, which is justified, among other things, by the close attention required by modern legislative and law enforcement bodies to the phenomenon of art crimes.