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2026. Vol. 12.. № 1 (45)About the authors:
Liliya V. Ivanova, Cand. Sci. (Jur.), Associate Professor, Academic Department, School of Law and Management, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia; l.v.ivanova@utmn.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5255-3182 https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/L-8681-2016 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57219319889 https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=703450Abstract:
Based on the analysis of regulatory legal acts and scientific sources, the article examines the concept and content of biological security as an object of criminal law protection. Scientific doctrine views biosecurity in both a narrow and a broad sense. Separating biological security from environmental and other types of security will allow it to be considered as an independent object of criminal law protection. The authors note that in the mechanism of legal relations, biological safety is a system of measures, norms, and institutions aimed at preventing, identifying, and neutralizing threats to biological well-being. Biosafety as a general object of criminal law protection is not specifically mentioned in criminal law. However, several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation refer to biological agents and substances. Currently, biological safety is an additional or optional object of criminal law protection (based on the existing structure of the criminal law), when specific methods are used to influence specific components of the bio-law system. In conclusion, it is noted that ensuring biological safety is an important task, but any changes to the criminal law must be socially and criminologically justified.References:
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