SUBJECTIVE HOSTILITY: A QUASI–MOTIVE OF AN OFFENSE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT STEREOTYPE?

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  • A. A. Sergeeva Saint Petersburg Institute (Branch) of All-Russian State University of Justice (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/ralj(2025)4.15
Keywords: motive of an offense, hostile motive, subjective hostility, criminal aggression, violent crimes against a person

Abstract

The significance of the motive of the crime in the mechanism of criminal behavior is difficult tooverestimate. At the same time, the dominance in the science of criminal law of a formalized approach todetermining the role of the motive of a crime as an incentive force causing the criminal activity of the subject ofthe crime should be stated. The article explores the structure of low-powered motivation for criminal behavior,accentuate the ratio of the most typical motives for the commission of violent crimes against the personalitywith the motivational structure a posteriori, called «hostility arising on the basis of personal relations». Theauthor carried out an analysis of judicial practice in cases of violent crimes against the personality, whichconcluded that an excessively simplified and generalized approach of the law enforcer, expressed in theattention of the entire variety of low-powered crimes to the design of “subjective hostile relations”, distorts themeaning of the motive of the crime as internal incentive force, leaves the borders The causes and conditionsof criminal aggression, the value of the criminal.

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№ 4 (2025): Российско-азиатский правовой журнал
Published
2025-12-23
How to Cite
Sergeeva A. SUBJECTIVE HOSTILITY: A QUASI–MOTIVE OF AN OFFENSE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT STEREOTYPE? // Russian-Asian Legal Journal, 2025, № 4. P. 91-96 DOI: 10.14258/ralj(2025)4.15. URL: https://ralj.ru/article/view/%282025%294.15.
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No 4 (2025): Russian-Asian Legal Journal
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CRIMINAL LEGAL STUDIES

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