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Gennady Nazarenko, Alexandra Sitnikova y Andrey Baybarin
Institution of Complicity in a Crime: Comparative-Legal Interpretation
of all participants in the commission of a crime. Each accomplice realizes 
the socially dangerous nature of the act, foresees criminal consequences, 
and wishes or deliberately allows them, pursuing criminal goals and having 
common intentions. At present, based on the analysis of the norms on 
the institution of complicity in criminal law, it can be concluded that it 
is important to apply it correctly. The theory and practice of criminal law 
know  various  forms  of  joint  participation  of  several  persons  in  criminal 
activity — complicity, indirect execution (or iniction), careless complicity, 
involvement in a crime, joint participation in a crime of persons in the 
absence of joint intent (mutual awareness) between them (Gunadi, 2020).
The value of the institution of complicity lies in ensuring effective criminal 
legal protection of public relations from group criminal encroachments, as 
well as creating an effective legal mechanism for the individualization of 
responsibility and punishment of members of criminal groups. Based on 
the above, it should be recognized that one of the strategic directions of 
modern criminal law policy is to further improve the legislative structures 
of the institutions of complicity in the criminal laws of states to counteract 
group crime more effectively.
1. Methods
The legal method was used in this study, including legal and technical 
methodology and methods of interpretation of the law. The legal and 
technical  method  was  used  in  the  analysis  of  rulemaking.  The  system 
of the code and each of its articles must comply with certain rules for 
constructing the disposition and sanction of norms to be clear, direct, and 
logically consistent. The interpretation of the law is possible in the way of 
understanding the meaning and legal form – grammatical, logical, and 
comparative and in terms of volume – authentic, expansive, and restrictive.
The criminal-statistical method was widely used, which is characterized 
as the knowledge of the qualitative originality of criminal-legal phenomena 
and concepts through quantitative indicators. This method was used 
to generalize and quantify, for example, norms, their dispositions and 
sanctions, the structure of punish ability, and criminal records.
The study used a systematic method that allowed researching criminal 
law phenomena and concepts as systems, i.e., an integral set consisting of 
subsystems and elements. The method was used in the analysis of lawmaking, 
law enforcement and construction theory, knowledge, application of such 
system institutions as criminal law, principles of law, crime, guilt, multiple 
crimes, complicity, exemption from criminal liability, and punishment. 
The principle of consistency should correspond to the location of sections, 
chapters, and norms in the text of the code. The criminal code is the macro 
system. The microsystem is a norm, the disposition of which describes the 
corpus delicti, and the sanction is the type and amount of punishment.