CONCEPT, ESSENCE AND CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMES AGAINST HEALTH

Abstract

This article analyzes the concept, essence, and classification of crimes against health. The views of scientists on the concept, essence, and classification of health as a natural resource genetically inherited to humans and important to humans, and its criminal-legal protection by each state, have also been studied. In addition, the article provides the author’s definition of crimes against health, emphasizing that the composition of these crimes is material in nature. It is also stated that as a necessary sign of the objective side of crimes against health, it should be understood that for the analyzed crimes, it is necessary to determine the causal connection between the criminal consequences of the type of health damage specified in the law and the act. At the same time, in this article, the author also provided opinions on bodily harm as a crime against health and its specific criteria. In addition, the article also examines the opinions of scholars that the issues of the concepts of “injury to the body” and “injury to health” have been the subject of controversy, but in many legal literature, the concept of “injury to the body” is cited, not “injury to health.”