Knyazeva, E.A. Hijacking and seisure of aircrafts and vessels for water transportation: comparative legal aspect

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the experience of criminalization of hijacking and seizure of aircrafts and vessels for water transportation. The author held a comparatively legal study of foreign legislation in order to uncover differences and similarities in criminal legal regulation of responsibility for the criminal acts in question in order to find the possible landmarks for the amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Analysis of the provisions of criminal legislation of foreign states has shown the following: 1. Many states have in their criminal legislation provisions on responsibility for hijacking and seizure of aircrafts and vessels; 2) The norms of foreign legislations, which are similar to the norm of Art. 211 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, are present in most states, and their provisions are mostly identical with some insignificant differences as to objective and subjective elements; 3) Existing differences are due to national legislative traditions and requirements of correlation between criminal legal regulation and other circumstances regarding legislative techniques.

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