THE CONCEPT OF TREASON AND ITS SOCIAL DANGER

Abstract

This article is devoted to the concept of treason as one of the criminal offenses that encroach on the foundations of Ukraine's national security. The current legislation, which defines the grounds and procedure for criminal liability for the act of high treason, has been reviewed and analyzed. In view of the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, it can be concluded that there is a rather large-scale threat to the national security of Ukraine. Given these circumstances, criminal responsibility for crimes against the foundations of Ukraine's national security acquires special importance. These criminal offenses are the most dangerous encroachments on social relations that ensure state sovereignty, territorial integrity, inviolability and defense capability of the state, state security of Ukraine and its constitutional order. In the article, the author focused on the issue of the normative definition of the criminal offense "treason". Attention is focused on the legal acts that codify the concept of treason, as well as researched and analyzed the terminological definitions of treason as a crime. The author considered and characterized the elements of the crime: object, subject, objective and subjective aspects of treason as a criminal offense against the foundations of national security of Ukraine. In addition, the author focused attention on the different approaches of scientists to the definition of the elements of the criminal offense of "treason" provided for in Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The changes made to the Criminal Code of Ukraine related to increased liability for criminal offenses against the foundations of the national security of Ukraine, in particular for treason, in the conditions of martial law, were analyzed, and it was also clarified that the purpose of these changes is to ensure fair punishment of persons, which in the conditions of martial law encroach on the security of the state.