Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Religious norms as a basis for differentiating criminal responsibility: the example of norms on crimes in the field of innovation
The article attempts to study the issue of how differentiation of responsibility for
crimes in the field of innovative activity was carried out in different historical periods of
the development of Russia. Religious norms allow not only to draw a line between criminal
and non-criminal, but also to influence the determination of the gravity of a crime and its
social danger in comparison with other illegal acts. However is this a universal rule? In this
work the author focuses on the study of the grounds for differentiating criminal liability in
relation to such a group of socially dangerous acts as crimes in the field of innovation. The
answer to the question posed by the author cannot be obtained without a comprehensive
study of religious norms, an understanding of the nature and means of differentiating responsibility, defining the concept of crimes in the field of innovation, the role of the
church in the system of regulating social relations.
The paper concludes that today it is quite difficult to determine the typical degree of
social danger of such a group of socially dangerous acts as crimes in the field of innovation.
This is due to the fact that these crimes are not systematized and are scattered across
various chapters of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In this regard one of the
tasks of the science of criminal law is the definition of the concept, types and public danger
of crimes in the field of innovation. Otherwise this may lead to the unjustified inclusion in
the criminal law of the rules establishing criminal liability for acts whose criminal penalties
are doubtful.
Keywords: innovation activity; the crime; religious norm
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Head of the Research Department, Associate Professor of
the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Vologda Institute of Law
and Economics of the Federal Penal Service of Russia, PhD. in Law
, e-mail vnnekrasow@mail.ru
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