title: Criminal law guarantees of human dignity and development of biotechnology
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metadata.value: Arzamastsev, Maksim V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:49:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:49:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Arzamastsev, Maksim V. 2022. Criminal law guarantees of human dignity and development of biotechnology. Pravovedenie 66 (1): 19–42. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.102 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.102
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38318
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the impact of biotechnology progress on changing criminal law. The author
  concludes that somatic rights do not constitute a new generation of human rights but enrich
  the dignity of the individual. Due to the natural nature of these rights, they can only be
  regulated to a small extent by law, which also limits the possibility of imposing prohibitions.
  Criminal law must address the task of guaranteeing the dignity of the individual. There is a need
  for clearer regulation of circumstances that exclude the crime of an act, such as the consent
  of the victim and reasonable risk. Criminalization of biotechnology applications where there
  were no signs of abuse should be considered unreasonable. Scientific progress has created
  uncertainty in the application of certain rules of criminal law. This requires the improvement of
  sentencing rules and the calculation of the statute of limitations of criminal prosecution. The
  need to criminalize new types of acts against the person, to introduce responsibility for crimes
  against artificial organs, as well as organs and tissues separated from a person, was analyzed.
  Issues of criminal legal assessment of illegal acts with human embryos are considered. It was
  concluded that it is necessary to include genetic information in the area of privacy protected
  by criminal law. An analysis of the development vectors of criminal law shows the impossibility
  of effective deterrence by prohibitions of certain ways of self-determination of the individual.
  The Russian legislator in this matter shows reasonable restraint. When further improving the
  criminal law, it is unacceptable to use the design of formal offences. As criminal-forming signs
  of prohibited acts, there can be both objective characteristics (the method of medical intervention
  caused by harm) and subjective ones — motive, purpose (for example, performing a sex
  reassignment operation for unlawful purposes). This will allow criminal law not to stand in the
  way of biotechnological progress, helping medical legislation determine some boundaries. The
  article analyses the norms of criminal law, the provisions of international conventions, and the
  practice of constitutional proceedings.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 66; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biotechnology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personal dignity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: human rights guarantees
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: somatic rights
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Criminal law guarantees of human dignity and development of biotechnology
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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