CRIMINAL ANALYSIS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICE IN THE FIELD OF RADIOECOLOGICAL SAFETY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32689/2617-9660-2026-1(37)-73-80Keywords:
radioecological safety, environmental crime, criminal offenses, judicial practice, criminal liability, probation supervision, penalization, criminological analysisAbstract
The article provides a comprehensive criminological analysis of judicial practice in cases of criminal offenses in the field of radioecological safety. Based on official statistical data from the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, the state of law enforcement activity regarding this category of criminal offenses during 2004–2025 was studied. The correlation between the number of registered criminal offenses, the number of persons in respect of whom court decisions have entered into force, and the number of convicted persons was analyzed, and the features of the structure of criminal records by types of criminal offenses and imposed punishments were also determined. It was established that the dominant share in the structure of criminal records is occupied by violations of the requirements of the radiation safety regime (Article 267¹ of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), while the application of other norms in this area is isolated. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the practice of imposing sentences, release from serving them, and assessment of the effectiveness of relevant criminal law norms. It was found that in the presence of alternative sanctions, courts mainly apply fines and other milder types of punishment, and in cases of no alternative deprivation of liberty, they often use the mechanism of release from serving a sentence with probation. The conclusion about the excessive punitiveness of the sanction of Part 1 of Article 267¹ of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is substantiated and it is proposed to replace the punishment in the form of restriction and deprivation of liberty with community service and probation supervision. It is noted that such an approach will allow to classify the relevant acts as criminal offenses and ensure a more adequate correspondence of sanctions to the level of their social danger, and will also contribute to increasing the effectiveness of criminal law response in the field of radioecological safety.
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