Len V. Criminal-legal problems of defining criminal responsibility

The thesis contains a number of theoretical and practical criminal-legal problems: criminal responsibility, the application of forced medical treatment, their bases and aims. The vitality of the subject: the problem of responsibility or irresponsibility of the criminal, the application of forced medical treatment is defined in the work. It is emphasized that in modern conditions of the building of legal state the man, his life and health, dignity and honour, inviolability and safety one of the main problems of Ukrainian society, the solving of which is a component of legal and judicial bodies' activity, and Internal affairs bodies and other state institutes in particular. The competitor point out that it is impossible to define restricted responsibility as a link in responsibility continuum; restricted responsibility is not a stable clinical limit between responsibility and irresponsibility.