CRIMINAL OFFENCE IN RUSSIAN LAW: SUGGESTIONS OF LAWYERS AND REALITY OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY
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The article is devoted to the possibility of introducing the category of criminal offense into the Russian criminal legislation. The main issues caused by it in the Criminal code of the Russian Federation are considered in the article.The article presents the viewpoints of well-known scientists and practicing lawyers, some decisions of the Constitutional court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the European Court of human rights on the category of criminal offence, as well as the need for the introduction of criminal offence because of social and political, economic and legal realities of modern Russian society.It is noted that in the case of a positive decision on legislative consolidation of criminal offence it is necessary to determine what specific actions can be referred to it. For this purpose it is necessary to establish the criteria that should be followed when classifying an unlawful act as a criminal offence. At the same time, it is necessary to distinguish criminal offence from administrative offenses.It is concluded that criminal offences include a number of crimes that do not pose great social danger (mainly, misdemeanors), administrative offences that are close to criminal, as well as petty acts which are not are not crimes.

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criminal offence, crime, administrative offence, social danger, differentiation of criminal responsibility
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