The criminal evaluation of socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes (through the example of illegal logging of forest stands)

Introduction: a criminallypunishable act causes certain changes in the objects of criminal legal protection, i.e. it entails the onset of sociallydangerous consequences. Specifically, this is expressed in harming the legallyprotected interests of the individual, society or the state, or in creating an immediate threat of harm. The consequences of environmental crimes are the result of exposure to natural objects and are harmful to nature and environmental safety. The aim of the work is to give a criminal evaluation of the sociallydangerous consequences of environmental crimes. Methods: the methodological framework for the study includes a whole range of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the fundamentally important ones are the methods of system analysis, synthesis. Results: the paper presents a criminal-legal analysis of the socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes. The classification of these consequences is defined. The necessityof the correct formulation in the law of the attribute characterizing the socially dangerous consequences of environmental crimes is emphasized. Conclusions: the consequences of environmental crimes are reflected in the object of encroachment, changes in the state of the natural environment that provides vital human interests. The sociallydangerous consequences of environmental crimes are physical, economic, and environmental in nature. Theyact as: 1) a crime-forming feature; 2) a qualifying feature; 3) are recognized as the basis for the intersectoral differentiation of responsibility and the differentiation of criminal responsibility.