What’s restraining a person from committing a crime: conscience or law?

Authors

  • Anush Mnatsakanyan Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35774/app2017.03.201

Keywords:

law, conscience, criminal personality, crime, punishment, crime prevention

Abstract

The article reveals the problems of crime prevention, the interrelation of notions «conscience» and «law» as factors of deterrence from committing a crime, their philosophical and criminological comprehension; with analyzed statistical data of restraining factors from committing any criminal offence

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Published

2018-09-22

Issue

Section

YOUNG SCIENCE

How to Cite

Mnatsakanyan, Anush. “What’s Restraining a Person from Committing a Crime: Conscience or Law?”. Actual Problems of Law, no. 3, Sept. 2018, pp. 201-6, https://doi.org/10.35774/app2017.03.201.