Prejudice as a Technical Legal Means of Intersectoral Cooperation
Karpunina V.V. Prejudice as a technical legal means of intersectoral cooperation. Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 4 (72), pp. 354–362. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.72.4.002.
at the present stage of criminal legislation development, certain technical and legal
means that were used during the Soviet period are gaining popularity again. In particular, we
are talking about an administrative prejudice. The return of this tool to the practice of the rule-making
activities of the Russian state is natural, since it combines important qualities of flexibility and
rationality of legal regulation. Despite the active use of administrative prejudice in current criminal
legislation, scientists’ opinions on the need for this technical and legal instrument are diverse – from
approval to complete rejection. The reason for the contradictory attitude is a lack of knowledge
of the legal nature of prejudice, which actualizes the conduct of a general theoretical analysis.
Methods: general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction combined
with formal legal analysis of norms based on dialectical and materialistic principles of scientific
knowledge. Purpose: to analyze the content of prejudice, forms of its legislative consolidation in
order to determine the essence and legal nature as a technical and legal instrument of intersectoral
cooperation. Conclusions: prejudice in Russian legal science and legislation is perceived differently
and has a multidirectional character. In one case, this concept covers specific facts established, for
example, in a court decision, in the other, it is about the interaction of norms belonging to different
branches of law, but used in a complex to ensure flexible regulation of liability for unlawful acts. It
is proposed to distinguish between the prejudice of fact and the prejudice of norms (administrative
prejudice). Their positive and negative sides are analyzed. The assumption of the legal nature of
administrative prejudice as a technical legal means of intersectoral interaction of norms is argued,
and the need to use prejudice in the branches of Russian law is substantiated. Specific proposals
to supplement Russian legislation with penal prejudice are formulated, and amendments to criminal
and penal legislation, as well as the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, are proposed.
Keywords: prejudice; administrative prejudice; legal regulation; legal technique; branch of law; legislation.
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