THE CATEGORIZATION OF CRIMES IN THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

The article raises the issue of categorization of the crimes, draws attention to the fact that in formulating the provisions of article 15 of the criminal code the legislator infringed the rules of logical classification of the phenomena, and the set limits of punishment contradict to the principle of justice. Based on different points of view expressed in the science, complementing and developing them, the authors propose specific recommendations for improving the criminal legislation (article 15 of the criminal code). In particular, it is proposed to change the name of each category; to distinguish five categories of crimes; to specify both top and bottom limit of punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty when constructing typical penalties for specific category of crime; and to use only one classification criterion as the basis of categorization.

crime, punishment, sanction, guilt, categories of crimes, imprisonment, classification, limits of punishment, principle of justice, foreign experience.

Podroykina I. A., Seryogina E. V. The categorization of crimes in the criminal legislation of Russia: problems and solutions // Business. Education. Law. Bulletin of Volgograd Business Institute. 2017. No. 3 (40). P. 152–156.