COMPLIANCE OF DOMESTIC CRIMINAL LAW WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS REGARDING LIABILITY FOR HIJACKING AND SEIZING AN AIRCRAFT

Authors

  • Sophia Lykhova National Aviation University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18372/2306-1472.72.11994

Keywords:

aviation security, civil aviation, criminal liability, hijacking aircraft, seizure

Abstract

Purpose: the main task of this scientific research is to study the problem of public danger, which arises as a result of the capture or hijacking of an aircraft. The problems of criminal responsibility for this socially dangerous act have been studied in this article. Methods: optimization of the legislation providing for criminal liability for this crime in accordance with the criminal legislation of Ukraine. Results: the socially dangerous consequences resulting from the seizure or hijacking of an aircraft were investigated. The issues of delimitation of socially dangerous acts that constitute the objective side of this crime are investigated. Discussion: objective and subjective signs of the crime, the main international normative acts aimed at ensuring aviation security, compliance of the norms of domestic criminal legislation with international norms and standards in the field of aviation security.

Author Biography

Sophia Lykhova, National Aviation University

Doctor of Law. Professor.

Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Process of the Scientific and Educational Law Institute of the National Aviation University.

Education: Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Research area: сriminal law, criminology, comparative criminal law, international law, european law, European standarts of protection of human rights.

References

The Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft. Adopted in Tokyo on 14 September 1963 [Electronic resource]. – Access mode : https://www.unodc.org/tldb/en/1963_Convention_on%20Board%20Aircraft.html/2.

Convention for The Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft. Sighed at The Hague on 16 December 1970 [Electronic resource]. – Access mode : https://cil.nus.edu.sg/1970/1970-convention-for-the-suppression-of-unlawful-seizure-of-aircraft/.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation. Concluded at Montreal on 23September 1971 [Electronic resource]. – Access mode: https://www.unodc.org/tldb/en/1971_Convention_Civil%20Aviation.html.

Criminal Code of Ukraine on 5 April 2001 № 2341-III // Vidomosti of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. – 2001. – № 25-26. – P. 131 [Electronic resource]. – Access mode: http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/16257/preview

Published

01-11-2017

How to Cite

Lykhova, S. (2017). COMPLIANCE OF DOMESTIC CRIMINAL LAW WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS REGARDING LIABILITY FOR HIJACKING AND SEIZING AN AIRCRAFT. Proceedings of National Aviation University, 72(3), 114–119. https://doi.org/10.18372/2306-1472.72.11994

Issue

Section

LAW