TO THE ISSUE OF RESPONSIBILITY OF ANIMALS AND INANIMATE OBJECTS: FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY
The signs of a crime subject are physical nature of a person; the age of attainment of criminal responsibility and sanity. It is the familiarity and significance of this approach that has influenced the existing opinion on the recognition of only individuals as subjects of criminal liability. Traditionally, representatives of the animal world and inanimate objects are not criminally liable. The author, paying attention to a retrospective view on the responsibility of animals and inanimate objects, thereby clarifies the processes that influenced the development and fixing in criminal law of such signs of the objective side of the crime as tools and means of committing a crime. The article gives examples of punishing animals and inanimate objects. While preparing the article the author has studied the works of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet scientists.