Privileged Types of Harm to Health: Concept, Attributes and Circumstances
Criminal law scholars have not developed a uniform approach to defining crimes against health committed under the circumstances mitigating criminal responsibility and of less social danger compared to the crimes of the main corpus (Articles 113, 114 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Due to the fact that the word-combination “causing harm to heath with mitigating circumstances” can imply not the privileged corpus itself but the deliberate causing harm to health done under the mitigating circumstances it is more reasonable to consider such crimes as “privileged types of causing harm to health”. The author also outlines the privileged attributes and circumstances influencing the classification of crimes related to causing harm to health