Temporal And Spatial Competition Of Criminal Law Norms In The Crime Classification Process

Overcoming the collision of criminal law norms is an important issue in the crime classification process. The principles of criminal law oblige to accurately investigate the criminal conduct and to impose an appropriate criminal liability against those who committed the crime. Addressing the issue, however, remains a rather complex matter due to a series of objective and subjective circumstances. The collision of criminal law norms is an encompassing phenomenon that is present in the entire process of the development of criminal law relations – from the fact of committing the crime to the removal or nullification of the criminal record. The objective of the following article is to comprehensively investigate the issues related to the temporal and spatial competition of criminal law norms within the scope of crime classification process. The subject of the study was examined with the use of general and special scientific methods, such as dogmatic, comparative legal, logical and legal modelling. On the basis of the conducted research the article presents practical-scientific recommendations related to the crime qualification process in view of competition of criminal legal norms that exist at different periods of time (temporal competition), as well as the competition of criminal law norms of the Republic of Armenia with foreign and international legal norms (spatial competition).