Doctoral student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Penal law, National Aviation Academy
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UDC 343.3
THE OBJECT OF THE CRIME OF FAILURE TO REPATRIATE FOREIGN
CURRENCY FUNDS IN THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
According to the theory of criminal law, for an act to be recognized as a crime, in addition to possessing social danger, unlawfulness, guilt, and punishability, all elements of the corpus delicti – namely the object, the objective aspect, the subject, and the subjective aspect – must be fully present in that act.
The object of a crime makes it possible to distinguish crimes from other unlawful acts that do not have a criminal-law nature [9]. As a fundamental element of the corpus delicti, it refers to the socially significant values, interests, and assets protected by criminal law that the crime is directed against and to which harm is caused, or in respect of which a real threat of such harm is created [1, p. 22]. F. Samandarov notes that the object of a crime is the social relations protected by the norms of criminal law against criminal encroachments [5, p. 135].
As social relations evolve, the scope of values, interests, and benefits protected by criminal law norms also changes. Therefore, with changes in the economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural environment, their list and content likewise undergo transformation [1, p. 34].