Criminal legislation has entered a new stage — the active use of administrative prejudice in the fight against various types of offenses. An analysis of the content of the criminal law on motor transport crimes made it possible to identify significant shortcomings in the novels, revealing the inconsistency of state policy and the lack of a unified approach to the issue of criminalizing certain violations of the Rules of the Road. On the example of Article 264² of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the problems of law enforcement of such norms are identified. In order to eliminate the chaotic introduction of new elements of transport crimes, a systematic approach is proposed, aimed at introducing the concepts of gross violation of the procedure for driving a vehicle and gross violation of the driver’s duties, establishing the scope of these definitions. Based on the proposed approach, it will be possible to develop only two elements of motor transport crimes, establishing responsibility for the most gross violations of the Rules of the Road.
vehicles, crimes, criminal law, traffic safety, administrative prejudgment, enhancing criminal liability for violation of traffic rules, violation of traffic rules, deprivation of a driver’s license for the right to drive vehicles, driver, administrative violations
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