scholarly journals ADMINISTRATIVE PREJUDICE IN FOREIGN CRIMINAL LAW: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 844-850
Author(s):  
V.I. Antonov ◽  
E.V. Antonov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
History Of ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Further Development

The article examines criminal law with administrative prejudice, as well as the history of the emergence and development of norms with administrative prejudice in the modern criminal legislation of Russia on various grounds. This topic is relevant today because the Russian legislator constantly includes new norms containing administrative prejudice in the criminal code of the Russian Federation. The problems of applying norms with administrative prejudice in practice are considered. It is noted that the criminal legislation in force in the XX century actively applied administrative prejudice as a method of legal regulation of public relations arising in the process of implementing the criminal policy of the Soviet state. The article analyzes the criminal legislation of Russia from the point of view of further development of criminal legislation in the direction of improving the institution of administrative prejudice and increasing the number of norms with administrative prejudice.

scholarly journals Genesis of the legislative definition of crime and category of crimes in accordance with the Russian criminal law

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Satenik Vrezhovna Shakhbazyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Further Development

The subject of this research is the process of state legal regulation of evolution of the definition of crime and category of crimes within the Russian criminal law. Special attention is given to the analysis of normative sources, which allows determining the key stages of development of the doctrine on crime and categorization of crimes. The author substantiates the opinion that normative documents of the Soviet period regulated the provisions regarding crime and categorization of crimes to the fullest extent, which laid the groundwork for the development of current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The conducted analysis of sources allowed concluding that the criminal legal policy in definition of crime and category of crimes, implemented by a legislator at various stages of social relations, is characterized by priority vectors in criminal policy of the state and caused by objective needs of the society. The complicated by their nature criminal-legal relations are constantly changing, which justifies the need for improvement of criminal legislation. The author comes to the conclusion that formalization and further development of the doctrine on crime and categorization of crimes retains its relevance in light of reform in criminal legislation.

The necessary defense and excess of its limits: legislative improvement opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-117
Author(s):  
Andrei Nikulenko ◽  
Maksim Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Improvement ◽  
Criminal Legislation

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.

scholarly journals Circumstances excluding the criminal act, in the criminal law of Russia and Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Sergey Milyukov ◽  
Andrei Nikulenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
The Right ◽  
Criminal Legislation

the article describes the circumstances excluding criminality of the act in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation in comparison with the corresponding Chapter of the criminal law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. A comparative analysis of the content of the norms regulating lawful harm is made. A number of issues related to the use of weapons by law enforcement officials in Russia and Vietnam were raised. Using the comparative method, the authors try to investigate the relevant norms, identify the advantages and disadvantages of legal regulation of circumstances that exclude the criminality of an act. note that the authors are in the position of expanding the range of circumstances that exclude the criminality of the act, which are subject to normative consolidation in the criminal legislation. Moreover, in view of the ambiguous and often inconsistent practice of applying criminal legislation in this area, it is proposed that in the further reconstruction of the relevant norms of Chapter 8 of the criminal code, use a casual way of presentation to create the most understandable for citizens wording of norms that allow lawfully cause harm to public relations protected by criminal law. Otherwise, the very fact of their existence in criminal legislation is called into question because of the inability and unwillingness of citizens to use the right granted by law. Possible ways of resolving contradictions in the criminal legislation of Russia and Vietnam are suggested.

scholarly journals Vectors of the Criminal Policy of Legal Regulation of Ccircumstances That Exclude the Criminal Character of an Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 992-1001
Author(s):  
Svetlana Parkhomenko ◽  
Sergey Milyukov ◽  
Andrey Nikulenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Legislative Support ◽  
Substantive Law ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Current Stage

At the current stage of social development, the protection of the interests of a person, society and the state from publically dangerous infringements is reaching a conceptually new level. Russian and foreign legislation, as well as theoretical publications, are paying more and more attention to the possibilities of the lawful infliction of harm under the circumstances that preclude the criminal character of an action. The abovementioned norms have a special place in criminal or other legislation because they contain clauses that allow inflicting harm on public relations protected by criminal law. Criminal legislation, recognized worldwide as penal in its essence (e.g. the Penal Code — «penal» being the synonym of «retributive», «punitive» and «vindictive») still contains a specific chapter devoted to such circumstances and includes norms that define the conditions and grounds for inflicting harm on public relations protected by criminal legislation, and this harm is recognized as lawful and even publically beneficial. These norms should be viewed as a specific legal phenomenon not only in Russian, but also in foreign criminal legislation and other types of legislation. However, the analysis of law enforcement practice does not allow to judge the effectiveness of their use by both law enforcement employees and citizens who protects their lawful rights and interests against publically dangerous infringements or engage in other publically beneficial behavior. In our opinion, the problems of law enforcement are connected with legislative support, and specifically with the area of substantive law. The authors of the article summarize many possibilities of using the norms of Chapter 8 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation that have not been realized yet. They take into account and stress the isolation and independence of these norms, the necessity of their presence and reflection specifically in the criminal legislation. The authors also recommend to change the method of legal regulation of the circumstances that preclude the criminal character of the action and to use it as a basis for introducing significant changes in the contents of the abovementioned norms with the aim of improving the effectiveness of their enforcement in practice.

Features of Humanization of the Criminal Policy of Kazakhstan: Study of the Possibilities to Increase the Effectiveness of Punishments in the Context of International Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1604
Author(s):  
Nurlan BIZHAN ◽  
Tugel BEKIMBETOV ◽  
Alisher PERSHEYEV ◽  
Gulshat RAHMETOVA ◽  
Gulmira DAIRABAYEVA
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Public Works ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Further Development

Humanization of the criminal policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, started by the President of the country in the Message dated January 29, 2010, attracts the attention of many researchers, both in Kazakhstan and in the world. However, the issue of what impact this humanization has on the recorded criminality in the country is answered by researchers ambiguously. A part of society also believes that humanization allows avoiding fair punishment for many criminals. The aim of the work is to summarize the results of the humanization of the criminal policy, to develop certain recommendations on the improvement of the criminal legislation of Kazakhstan taking into account world trends and the provisions in the international criminal law. The influence of international legislation on the formation of national criminal law is analyzed. Under the influence of global trends, there has been significant humanization of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. A significant reduction in the number of persons serving a criminal sentence of imprisonment is mentioned by the author as one of the main achievements of the process of humanization. The author sees the further development of the process of humanization in a new approach to the execution of punishment in the form of community service. The international experience of implementing the principle of publicity for a number of criminal penalties, its conformity with the historical traditions of the Kazakh society are recognized as positive; this experience is recommended to be used and fixed in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The author believes in the need to widely involve public organizations, including religious ones, in their influence on people convicted for public works.

scholarly journals The Institute of Monetary Penalties in Criminal Law: Condition and Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-589
Author(s):  
Andrei Zvonov
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Further Development

Ever since the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was adopted, new amendments have been added to it every year. Thus, the system of criminal law measures has been regularly improved through changes to the existing norms, the abolishment of old norms and the introduction of new ones. On the whole, modern Russian criminal policy is aimed at increasing the number of possible measures of influencing lawbreakers. One of the latest innovations is the institute of court fines introduced by the Federal Law № 323-ФЗ of July 3, 2016. It is a beneficial innovation. Monetary penalties can now be used practically at all stages of court procedures: before delivering a judgment - as a court fine, and as part of the sentence when a fine is a criminal penalty. This could have a positive impact on court procedures and the enforcement of criminal measures, it could also increase income to the budget in the unstable financial conditions. However, the imposition of monetary penalties has some drawbacks, as it may not be always possible to control the payment of fines by the perpetrators, especially when such payments are done one-time. There are some other issues and negative sides connected with the further development of the institute of monetary penalties. The analysis of penalties enforcement allowed the author to identify one vital drawback - a gap in the legal regulation regarding the control that a specially authorized agency has over the perpetrators. While this could be considered acceptable in the case of court fines, it is not adequate for the goals of criminal punishment. The results of the generalized analysis of punitive measures allow the author to conclude that it is necessary to make monetary penalty a measure that is different from criminal punishment; it should be enforced in cases of exemption from criminal liability or as an obligatory addition to criminal punishment.

scholarly journals AGGRAVATING AND MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES CHARACTERIZING SUBJECTIVE SIGNS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-685
Author(s):  
V.I. Tikhonov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Special Part ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Subjective Side

The Institute of mitigating and aggravating circumstances is presented not only in the norms of the General part of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. The application of these circumstances in the construction of individual elements of a crime allows the legislator to differentiate the orientation of the criminal law influence in relation to a specific crime element or in qualifying the fact of life reality. In law enforcement practice, proving the subjective side of a crime often causes significant problems. At the same time, motivation and achievement of a specific goal of committing a crime can have both a mitigating and an aggravating effect. The subjective side has a significant impact not only on the design of the offenses of the Special Part of the Criminal Law, but also on the process of sentencing through legal regulation of circumstances mitigating or aggravating criminal punishment. In this regard, both general and mandatory features of the subject of the crime also affect the procedure for establishing guilt and determining punishment in accordance with the norms of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Of scientific interest is the study of the influence of the process of legal regulation of mitigating and aggravating circumstances in terms of the impact on this process of subjective signs of criminal behavior.

scholarly journals Criminal Law Protection of Reproductive Health: Current Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
E. L. Sidorenko
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The subject of the research is the specifics of the criminal law protection of reproductive health in the Russian legislation. The topic was chosen due to the increasing dynamics of crimes related to limitation on the reproductive rights of women and men and unauthorized manipulation of the human genome. Despite the growing need for providing a regulatory framework for this kind of relationships, the system of their criminal law protection is only beginning to take shape, therefore, a necessity arises to revise traditional approaches to the protection of the individual. Therefore, the purpose of the paper was to understand the system of criminal law protection of reproductive health in terms of its compliance with trends of medical practices and dynamics of socially significant diseases based on both traditional principles of scientific analysis and the results of applying sociological methods of data processing, which made it possible to identify the most significant directions of the Russian criminal policy development. Moreover, the critical analysis method was used in the research that showed the inconsistency of the system of criminal law prevention of criminal abortions, contamination with socially significant diseases and illegal use of the human genome. Based on the research findings, an author’s model of criminal prevention of attacks on reproductive health has been built and its systemic assessment is given. It is concluded that the legislator is inconsistent in assessing the attributes of an unlawful abortion; the accounting of contamination with certain socially significant diseases is inadequate; the laws prohibiting the use of the human genome need to be included into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The conclusions formulated in the paper have practical importance and can be taken into account by the legislator in the reform of the current criminal legislation.

scholarly journals The goals of criminal punishment as a reflection of modern criminal policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-330
Author(s):  
V.V. Popov ◽  
◽  
S.M. Smolev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The presented study is devoted to the issues of disclosing the content of the goals of criminal punishment, analyzing the possibilities of their actual achievement in the practical implementation of criminal punishment, determining the political and legal significance of the goals of criminal punishment indicated in the criminal legislation. The purpose of punishment as a definition of criminal legislation was formed relatively recently, despite the fact that theories of criminal punishment and the purposes of its application began to form long before our era. These doctrinal teachings, in essence, boil down to defining two diametrically opposed goals of criminal punishment: retribution and prevention. The state, on the other hand, determines the priority of one or another goal of the punishment assigned for the commission of a crime. The criminal policy of Russia as a whole is focused on mitigating the criminal law impact on the offender. One of the manifestations of this direction is the officially declared humanization of the current criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. However, over the course of several years, the announced “humanization of criminal legislation” has followed the path of amending and supplementing the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: introducing additional opportunities for exemption from criminal liability and punishment, reducing the limits of punishments specified in the sanctions of articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and including in the system of criminal punishments of types of measures that do not imply isolation from society. At the same time the goals of criminal punishment are not legally revised, although the need for such a decision has already matured. Based on consideration of the opinions expressed in the scientific literature regarding the essence of those listed in Part 2 of Art. 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the goals of punishment are determined that each of them is subject to reasonable criticism in view of the abstract description or the impossibility of achieving in the process of law enforcement (criminal and penal) activities. This circumstance gives rise to the need to revise the content of the goals of criminal punishment and to determine one priority goal that meets the needs of modern Russian criminal policy. According to the results of the study the conclusion is substantiated that the only purpose of criminal punishment can be considered to ensure proportionality between the severity of the punishment imposed and the social danger (harmfulness) of the crime committed. This approach to determining the purpose of criminal punishment is fully consistent with the trends of modern criminal policy in Russia, since it does not allow the use of measures, the severity of which, in terms of the amount of deprivation and legal restrictions, clearly exceeds the social danger of the committed act. In addition, it is proportionality, not prevention, that underlies justice – one of the fundamental principles of criminal law.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF CRIMINAL LEGISLATION DEVELOPMENT IN SLOVAKIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Наталья Лазарева ◽  
Natalya Lazareva
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The subject of this research is criminal legislation of the Slovak Republic since the merge of Slovakia in the AustroHungarian Empire (XIX century) to the present day. The article analyzes the emergency criminal legislation of the World War II period, the socialist Criminal Codes of the Czechoslovak Republic (1950, 1961) and the existing Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic of 2005. The article also touches upon the country’s constitutional development on the example of the adopted Constitutions of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948, 1960) and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic (1992). The author pays special attention to the integration of Slovakia into the European legal framework when it became a member of the European Union in 2004. The article also contains comparative analysis of the main institutions of the criminal law in Russia and Slovakia. During the research the author used the following special methods: historical, logical, and comparative law method, which includes a variety of techniques (doctrinal, regulatory, functional comparison). As opposed to the criminal law of other European Union countries, the Slovak criminal law has remained practically unexplored by the Russian criminal law doctrine. But it is very unique because it comprises the combination of Austrian, German and Russian criminal law ideas which is conditioned by historical peculiarities of this state’s development. On the example of Slovakia, the author demonstrates possibility of combining the national legal legacy and directives of the European Union.

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