On Research and Realities of Decriminalization of Criminal Acts in Russia

Author(s):  
Sergey A. Markuntsov

The relevance of the research of decriminalization of criminal acts in Russia is due to both the lack of current adequate coverage of this issue even in some specialized studies of fundamental nature and the need to obtain a comprehensive understanding of decriminalization in Russia in the context of the trend of its modern criminal law policy humanization. The aim of the article is to study the processes of decriminalization of criminal acts in Russia through assessing the state of modern criminal law discourse on the problem specified. The research concludes the secondary, derivative nature of the analyzed decriminalization issues in most modern studies, the actual scale of full decriminalization of criminal acts in Russia, which aims for arithmetic error against the background of current decriminalization processes (for the entire period of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation only 4 criminal acts were fully decriminalized)

Author(s):  
Nikolay Letelkin ◽  
Dmitry Neganov

The article examines the situationality of modern lawmaking in the field of criminal law in the context of the adoption of the federal law of 1.04.2020 No. 100-FZ «On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Articles 31 and 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation», adopted by the State The Duma of the Russian Federation in connection with the pandemics of the Corona Virus Disеаsе 2019 (COVID-19).


Author(s):  
Andrei Nikulenko ◽  
Maksim Smirnov

The article is devoted to the necessary defense as a circumstance that precludes the criminality of an act in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. The significance and importance of the existence of this norm is proclaimed both in the criminal law and in the Basic law of the state – the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The existence of a rule on necessary defense in the state emphasizes the development of its legal system, allowing citizens to defend their own interests and protect the interests of others, in ways not prohibited by law, thereby preventing exceeding the limits of necessary defense. A number of issues related to the application of the norms provided for in article 37 of the Criminal code of Russia, as well as the norms of the Special part of the Criminal code of Russia, which provide for liability for crimes committed when exceeding the limits of necessary defense, were raised. The study of the relevant norms makes it possible to identify the advantages and disadvantages of legal regulation of circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act, including the shortcomings of judicial and investigative practice. The author criticizes the existing approach and suggests ways to resolve these problems, including by correcting the resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated September 27, 2012, № 19 «About application by courts of legislation on necessary defense and causing harm when detaining a person who has committed a crime». Because of the ambiguous and often inconsistent application of norms of the criminal legislation on necessary defense, the authors give the recommendations (in further reconstruction of the relevant provisions of article 37 of the Criminal Code) to use an enumeration approach of presenting the legal formulation of these rules that allow the defender to cause any harm to an attacker. At the same time, it creates the most understandable, for citizens, formulation of the norm that allows lawfully causing harm to public relations protected by criminal law.


10.12737/7254 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Оксана Макарова ◽  
Oksana Makarova

In recent years in our country the steady tendency to increase of authority of the state in the sphere of business and strengthening of economic security is observed. The state finds new opportunities of effective counteraction of crime in the economic sphere, including by means of liberalization and a humanization of the criminal legislation. Among the main acts aimed at the improvement of criminal law, can be called the Federal law of December 7, 2011 No. 420-FZ “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” which provides the special basis of release from criminal liability for commission of crimes in the sphere of economic activity. The specified basis is fixed in the new Article 761 “Exemption from criminal liability in cases of crimes in the sphere of economic activity” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In the explanatory note to this document it is noted that “such addition of the criminal law is caused by the necessity of its further humanization and counteraction to abuses in the field of investigation of economic crimes”. In the article mentioned Article 761 thoroughly analyzed in conformity with the requirements of the legal techniques and modern economic realities. The special attention is paid to the conditions of release from criminal responsibility provided for in second part of Article 761, given their critical assessment. It seems to the author that the legislator, providing special possibility of the exemption from criminal liability in cases of crimes in the sphere of economic activity had departed from the constitutional principle of equality of citizens before the law and court, having allowed thereby an inequality between the persons who have committed a crime.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Leonid V. Goloskokov

The features of the manifestations of hybrid wars were investigated by examples of its action in certain sectors of science, education, economics, finance, and criminal law. Certain characteristics of actions and events have been identified as elements of a hybrid war and not as random events. The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation does not contain the necessary articles that would allow sufficient legal protection of the rights of citizens and the interests of the state from the actions and consequences of hybrid wars. In general, the criminal law system is not ready to identify and classify events as elements of a hybrid war, repel hybrid war attacks and waging confrontation, and work on the initial preemption and prevention of hybrid wars. This article, which is proposed to be introduced into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, reveals the concept of hybrid war and provides its full definition in a new article. In conclusion, criminal legal measures and the possibilities of only the criminal legal system cannot solve the problems of confrontation in hybrid wars, and involvement of all the forces and resources of the state is necessary. A proposal was made on the need to move to organizing the work of Russian law enforcement agencies on new principles: preemptive and prevention of hybrid wars instead of merely identifying their consequences and fragmentary application of criminal punishment for actions that are insignificant in comparison to the scale and damage caused by a hybrid war.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-366
Author(s):  
Elena Kalashnikova

The article is devoted to theoretical justification for the introduction of criminal prohibitions on criminal assault in the illicit movement of goods, specified in article 226-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; the principles and bases of criminalization of smuggling in connection with her increased public danger. The analysis of the main components of social conditionality of criminal responsibility allows us to establish the validity of the introduction of new or existing criminal law norms. The article considers the public danger of smuggling (art. 226-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), as an obligatory sign of a crime, revealing its social nature and social conditionality of the criminal liability under article 226-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, depending on the extent and nature of public danger of the given kind of crimes. The social assessment of an act as a crime is based on its social danger, which is legally established in a normative legal act (Federal law) adopted in accordance with the established procedure and included in the criminal code of the Russian Federation. Attention is drawn to the fact that the public danger of smuggling is a threat to the foreign economic security of Russia. At the same time, there is a public danger of illegal movement across the customs border of the EEU (the customs border of the Customs Union within the framework of the EEU) of items specified in art. 226-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is primarily concerned with causing harm to market economic relations developing in the EEU area, which forms a single customs territory, as well as causing material damage to the state in the form of unpaid customs payments, death or damage to particularly valuable wild animals and aquatic biological resources as contraband items. Smuggling as a negative social phenomenon includes the organization of activities related to violation of the customs and border regime. In the context of globalization and the development of market relations, smuggling is still the most common and most dangerous of customs crimes. Accordingly, the existence of a criminal law ban on its Commission remains socially conditioned, since it is a deterrent that allows the state to respond adequately to these types of criminal behavior.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Vadim A Avdeev ◽  
Ekaterina V Avdeeva

The current conditions of the ongoing intra-state socio-economic and political-legal transformations inevitably affect the state, structure and dynamics of ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. The conducted legal analysis confirms the urgency of the development and implementation of new, more sophisticated measures to counter theft, fraud, robbery, robbery and extortion, taking into account the development trends of these crimes against property. The renewed renovation of the Russian state system is accompanied by the adoption of the Concept of Long-Term Social and Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, which predetermine new directions of the criminal legal policy in minimizing the criminalization of public relations to ensure the security of various forms of ownership. The globalization of law, the changing polycentric world predetermine the expediency of following the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, including those aimed at effectively countering ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. Throughout the evolution of social development, the priority task of each state was the inviolability of property interests. Analysis of the state, structure and dynamics of crimes against property, regulated by Art. 158-1596, 161-163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, allows us to note the dominant position of ordinary criminal mercenary criminality. In this connection, conclusions are drawn on the trends in the development of the criminal situation, and the estimation of the illegality and collision of modern criminal legislation with regard to the construction of criminal law norms is given. The main directions of the criminal and legal policy in the sphere of novelization of the criminal law on counteracting common criminal mercenary criminality are to be understood. The topical issues of legislative and organizational-practical nature in the field of countering common criminal mercenary criminality are considered.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Victor Nikolaevich Borkov

The subject. The article is devoted to analysis of court practice concerning crimes in public procurement.The purpose of the paper is to solve the problem of delimitation of theft committed by the perpetrator with the use of his official position, from abuse of official powers and official forgery is topical.The methodology. General scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison were used. The system method allowed to consider misdemeanors and a set of rules providing for responsibility for their commission, in conjunction with public relations, which need criminal law protection. The functional approach made it possible to address the issues of qualification for official crimes against the contract system and the state de-fense order, taking into account the forms and methods of activity of the subjects of con-tractual relations.Results and scope of application. An important role in improving the effectiveness of public procurement is played by officials who, in dealing with suppliers of goods and executors, are called upon to defend public interests. The public danger of crimes committed by offi-cials in this sphere is manifested in the destruction of the material basis of the functioning of the state, undermining its defensive capacity and reducing the level of security. Judicial practice testifies to the lack of uniform approaches to the qualification of crimes committed in the sphere of execution of the state and municipal contract.The article proposes criteria for delimiting the encroachments of officials on the expendi-ture of budgetary relations, taking into account the addition of the criminal law to norms that provide for responsibility for abuse in the performance of the state defense order (art. 201.1 and 285.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the qualification of crimes committed in the sphere of contractual relations, and the application of art. 201.1 and 285.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are proposed to be guided by the recommendations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on the delimitation of abuse of official powers from embezzlement.Conclusions. It is necessary to proceed from the existence of two lines of activity of the customer. The first is the acceptance of the delivered goods, the work performed, the ser-vices rendered. The second is payment for goods, work and services.


Author(s):  
G.A. Reshetnikova

The article deals with the understanding, assessment criteria and accounting for the commission of a crime in a state of intoxication as an aggravating circumstance in the science of criminal law and in judicial practice. Application of Part 1.1 of Art. 63 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in practice shows that the difficulties faced by the court (judge) and the authors dealing with this problem are due to the imperfection of this norm, a different idea of the internal legal nature of the circumstance in question, therefore, a different content of its legal and criminological grounds. The main question that they are trying to solve is whether the state of intoxication contributed to the commission of a crime, while the state of intoxication as a circumstance aggravating punishment must be assessed in conjunction with the consequences of the committed criminal act.


Author(s):  
Александр Михайлович Смирнов

В статье актуализируется вопрос замены наименования ст. 37 Уголовного кодекса Российской Федерации «Необходимая оборона» на «Необходимую защиту» как более четкого с точки зрения языка закона и юридически грамотного. Приводятся научно обоснованные аргументы в пользу подобного изменения в российский уголовный закон. Отмечается, что оборона, по своей сути, это военный термин, содержание которого выходит за пределы нормативных границ реализации действий в состоянии самозащиты права, регламентированного в данной статье. О защите правового статуса личности, интересов общества и государства от общественно опасного посягательства говорится в диспозиции данной статьи. Вместе с тем Конституция Российской Федерации предоставляет каждому лицу право на самостоятельную защиту, а не самостоятельную оборону своих прав и свобод в различных сферах жизнедеятельности всеми не запрещенными законом способами (ч. 2, ст. 45). Именно о защите, а не обороне социальных благ и интересов говорится в Европейской конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод (ч. 2 ст. 2 Раздел I). С содержательной точки зрения оборона предполагает совершение подготовительных, заблаговременных действий, а также контрнаступление (нападение на противника, его полную ликвидацию), что с законодательной точки зрения выступает превышением нормативных границ необходимой обороны, согласно действующей редакции рассматриваемой уголовно-правовой нормы. Помимо этого в науке уголовного права и ряде других отраслей юридической науки вопросы реализации необходимой обороны рассматриваются в рамках правового института «самозащиты права». The article updates the issue of replacing the name of Art. 37 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation «Necessary Defense» to «Necessary Protection» as the most correct in terms of the language of the law and legally competent. Scientifically grounded arguments are presented in favor of such a change in the Russian criminal law. It is noted that defense, in its essence, is a military term, the content of which goes beyond the normative boundaries of the implementation of actions in the state of self-defense of law, regulated in this article. The disposition of this article speaks about the protection of the legal status of the individual, the interests of society and the state from socially dangerous encroachment. At the same time, the Constitution of the Russian Federation grants each person the right to independent defense, and not independent defense of their rights and freedoms by all in various spheres of life, in ways not prohibited by law (part 2, article 45). It is about the protection, not the defense of social benefits and interests that is said in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Part 2 of Art. 2 Section I). From a substantive point of view, defense involves the commission of preparatory, early actions, as well as a counteroffensive (attack on the enemy, his complete elimination), which from a legislative point of view is an excess of the normative boundaries of necessary defense, in accordance with the current version of the criminal law in question. In addition, in the science of criminal law and a number of other branches of legal science, the implementation of necessary defense is considered within the framework of the legal institution of «self-defense of law».


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
T. N. Utorova ◽  

The article analyzes the signs of a crime provided for by Art. 322 of the Criminal Code «Illegal crossing of the State border of the Russian Federation.» The subject of the research is the problems of criminal law protection of the state border. The author has uncovered the issues of qualifying actions to cross the border outside checkpoints, justifies the need to criminalize such actions. The evaluation of punishment differentiation with the use of qualifying signs is given. A proposal was made to unify the use of homogeneous qualifying circumstances — signs of qualified and specially qualified elements of crimes, such as “a group of persons by prior agreement is an organized group”; «with the use of violence not dangerous to life and health or with the threat of violence - with the use of violence dangerous to life and health.» The necessity of expanding the circle of persons who are not subject to criminal liability is substantiated by pointing out in the footnote to article 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on persons applying for any asylum and forced migrants. It was proposed to supplement the list of criminal penalties with expulsion applicable only to foreign citizens and stateless persons. As a result the author concludes that the order of management in the area of crossing the state border is not sufficiently protected and that the requirements for differentiating responsibility are not complied with. There are offered options to overcome the current situation.


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