9. The circumstances, which mitigate criminal punishment:

1) giving oneself up, sincere repentance or active assistance to crime detection;

2) the voluntarily compensation of damage to the inflicted person or removal of the caused harm;

3) commission of crime by a minor;

4) commission of crime by a woman in a state of pregnancy;

5) commission of crime as a result of combination of events - the grave personal, family or other circumstances;

6) commission of crime under an act of threat, compulsion or through material, official or other dependence;

7) commission of crime under the act of the strong emotion, which was caused by the wrong or amoral acts of the victim;

8) commission of crime with exceeding of the limits of absolute necessity;

9) execution of the special task of prevention and detection of criminal activity of the criminal group or organization, when this execution is connected with commission of crime in cases, which are foreseen by the Criminal code of Ukraine.

10. The circumstances, which aggravate criminal punishment:

1) commission of crime by a person repeated offence and relapse of crimes;

2) commission of crime by the group of people on a previous plot;

3) commission of crime on the base of racial, national or religious enmity or discord;

4) commission of crime in connection with the implementation of the official or public duties by the victim;

5) heavy consequences inflicted by a crime;

6) commission of crime in relation to a very young, an old person or a person, who is in the helpless state;

7) commission of crime in relation to a woman, who was in the state of pregnancy, and offenders knew about it;

8) commission of crime in relation to a person, who is in material, official or other dependence of an offender;

9) commission of crime with use of a very young person or a person, who suffers psychical disease or imbecility;

10) commission of crime with the special cruelty;

11) commission of crime with use of the conditions of the military or extraordinary state, other extraordinary events;

12) commission of crime by general dangerous method;

13) commission of crime by a person, who is in the state of alcohol intoxication or in the state, which was caused by the use of drugs or other intoxicated substances.

11. The special features of criminal responsibility for minors.

Minors are people under 18. A minor in age from 16 is the subject of criminal responsibility. People, who committed crime in age from 14 to 16 are subjects of criminal responsibility for the most dangerous crimes. They are: attempt to life of statesman, worker of law enforcement authorities, representative of the foreign state, intentional homicide, grievous bodily injury, sabotage, banditry, androlepsy, act of terrorism, theft offence, robbery, illegal possession of transport etc.

There are such criminal punishments for the minors:

1. penalty (fine);

2. public works;

3. correctional works;

4. arrest;

5. imprisonment for a definite period.

There is imprisonment for the minor for a term not more than 10 years, and for especially grave crimes not more than 15 years. There is no life imprisonment for the minors.

If a minor committed not grave crime or middle grave crime, the offender can be released from punishment in a decision of a court, if it will be set that it is no need to punish him or her because of sincere repentance and further irreproachable behavior of the person in the moment of the verdict. In this case the court chooses the forced measures of education character to the minor. They are:

1) warning;

2) limitation of leisure and establishment of the special requirements to the minor’s behavior;

3) transmission the minor under a supervision of parents or people that replace them, or under the supervision of pedagogical or labour collective after the consent, and also separate citizens on their request;

4) laying on the minor, who attained 15 and has property, money or earnings, the duty of reimbursement the property damage;

5) retention the minor to the correctional special educational establishment for children and teenagers, but on term not more than 3 years.