Problems of Criminal and Legal Ensuring of Epidemic Security in a Pandemic
Abstract
The actual threat of the spread of a dangerous disease in a pandemic has challenged virtually all industries that regulate public life both internationally and nationally. Taking into account the current situation in the world in a pandemic, Ukraine shall develop a certain mechanism that will ensure the maximum level of epidemic security at the national level, in which the legal sector occupies a significant place. Criminal law, which establishes criminal liability for the most socially dangerous illegal acts, has sufficient leverage to ensure compliance with anti-epidemic measures. However, a number of issues remain unresolved, in particular, ensuring compliance with the epidemic safety rules by criminal and legal means, as well as the actual level of protection of epidemic safety in the current Criminal Code of Ukraine. The purpose of this study is to identify problems in the criminal and legal ensurance of epidemic security in Ukraine and find ways to solve them. Being a component of national security, an epidemic security is an object of criminal protection; it is the order of public relations established by the rules of various branches of law, which ensures a set of conditions under which there is no unacceptable risk of various dangerous diseases in patients and medical staff, as well as organisms or cells or their acquisition of various health hazards. The analysis of the norms of the Criminal Code of Ukraine showed their shortcomings and even the impossibility to counteract the spread of dangerous diseases by criminal and legal means. It is proposed to supplement Section II ‘Crimes Against Life and Health’ of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with a norm that will establish liability for infection or threat of infection with a dangerous disease, virus or infection (except incurable and venereal) of one person, as well as the norm that would establish responsibility for systematic similar administrative violations of the rules of conduct and public life current at the time of the epidemics
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