Lack of Criminal Responsibility under Ukrainian Criminal Law

The subject of the study is cases in which a person who has committed a certain behaviour is not criminally responsible for it. Authors address this issue in the context of the principles of application of the criminal law, the concept of a crime, the forms of committing a crime, the specified circumstances excluding the criminality of an act, the release from criminal responsibility and from punishment, and the lack of responsibility of certain persons for certain crimes.