Social Aspects of Criminal Responsibility for Escape from Prison, Arrest, or Custody in the Criminal Legislation of the Foreign Countries

Abstract

The article is devoted to the complex system study of legal regulation of criminal liability for escape from prison, arrest, and custody in the legislation of the foreign countries. The authors examine the model of the analyzed type of crimes in the Model Criminal Code for the CIS states, as well as the criminal codes of the CIS states. The article pays attention to the legal regulation of the examined types of crimes in the criminal codes of the European countries. Comparative analysis of the legislative structure of escape from prison or custody in the Model Criminal Code, criminal codes of the CIS countries, and a number of the European countries allowed the authors to formulate the following conclusion: setting of criminal liability for escapes from prison or custody is an objective necessity for legislator of a legal state in order to provide proper criminal law protection of goals and objectives of justice in the field of criminal and legal relations.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s6p107