Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Criminal misdemeanor: assessment of embodiment forms and prospects of existence
Kosterin V. V. Criminal misdemeanor: assessment of forms of embodiment and prospects of existence. Penitenciarnaya nauka = Penitentiary Science. 2020; 14(3):343–348. (In Russ.). DOI 10.46741/2686-9764-2020-14-3-343-348.
Recently there has been a discussion in criminal law science about the
inclusion in the criminal block of a new institution – a criminal misdemeanor – a wrongful
act, in relation to which special, less strict rules for determining the amount of punishment
are applied and, presumably, the concept of a criminal record does not apply.
The article examines the prospects for introducing the category of “criminal
misdemeanor” in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, provides an assessment
and comments on the reform proposed by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation,
examines various scientific points of view on the institution and approaches to formulating
the definition, predicts the main directions of development of the new institution.
The most controversial issues of a possible reform are: 1) the concept and place of
a criminal misdemeanor (as an independent tort or a subtype of minor crimes); 2) the
method of consolidation (in the form of a chapter of the criminal code or an independent
code of criminal misdemeanors); 3) types of punishment (fine, correctional labor, arrest);
4) the occurrence of a criminal record (conditions, terms, duration); 5) ways of securing
new punishments (in the form of independent articles of the criminal code or additional
wording of existing articles, indicating a smaller amount of punishment if applied to a
person who has committed a criminal misdemeanor).
Keywords: criminal misdemeanor; categorization of crimes; differentiation of criminal liability; conviction; criminal law policy
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2. Gavrilov B. YA. Ugolovnyj prostupok v rossijskom prave: pozhelaniya zakonodatelya ili realii rossijskogo obshchestva
[Criminal misconduct in Russian law: the wishes of the legislator or the realities of Russian society]. CHelovek: prestuplenie
i nakazanie – Human: crime and punishment, 2018, no. 2, pp. 131–136. (In Russ.).
3. Gavrilov B. YA., Rogova E. V. Ugolovnyj prostupok: koncepciya razvitiya (mnenie uchenogo i praktika) [Criminal
misconduct: development concept (opinion of a scientist and practice)]. Publichnoe i chastnoe pravo – Public and private
law, 2016, no. 4, pp. 7–45. (In Russ.).
4. Gal’perin I. M. Social’nye i pravovye osnovy depenalizacii [Social and legal foundations of depenalization]. Sovetskoe
gosudarstvo i pravo – Soviet state and law, 1980, no. 3, pp. 63–66. (In Russ.).
5. Geta M. R. Ugolovnoe pravo: predely, ob»ekty i sredstva vozdejstviya v bor’be s prestupnost’yu v sovremennoj Rossii
[Criminal law: limits, objects and means of influence in the fight against crime in modern Russia]. Moscow, 2017. 336 p. (In Russ.).
6. Korobeev A. I. Ugolovno-pravovaya politika: problema obosnovannosti zapretov v Ugolovnom Kodekse Rossijskoj
Federacii 1996 goda [Criminal law policy: the problem of the validity of prohibitions in the 1996 Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation]. Materialy II Mezhdunarodnoj nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii «Ugolovnoe pravo: strategiya razvitiya
v XXI veke» [Materials of the II International Scientific and Practical Conference «Criminal Law: Development Strategy in the
XXI Century»]. Moscow, 2005, pp. 53–56. (In Russ.).
7. Korsun D. YU. O zakonoproekte Verhovnogo Suda RF, svyazannogo s dekriminalizaciej ryada prestuplenij nebol’shoj
tyazhesti, a takzhe predlozhenie po vvedeniyu v pravovuyu sistemu RF kategorii «ugolovnyj prostupok» [On the draft law
of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation related to the decriminalization of a number of minor crimes, as well as a
proposal to introduce the category of «criminal» into the legal system of the Russian Federation]. YUridicheskaya nauka –
Legal Science, 2016, no. 2, pp. 88–94. (In Russ.).
8. Korsun D. YU. O nekotoryh voprosah primeneniya chasti 2 stat’i 14 Ugolovnogo kodeksa Rossijskoj Federacii i o
vvedenii v rossijskoe pravo kategorii «ugolovnyj prostupok» [On some issues of application of part 2 of Article 14 of the
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and on the introduction of the category of «criminal misdemeanor» into Russian
law]. Mir yuridicheskoj nauki – The world of legal science, 2015, no. 10, pp. 42–47. (In Russ.).
9. Korsun D. YU. Ponyatie ugolovnogo prostupka kak novoj kategorii ugolovnogo prava Rossii [The concept of a criminal
misdemeanor as a new category of Russian criminal law]. YUridicheskaya nauka – Legal Science, 2017, no. 1, pp. 72–78.
(In Russ.).
10. Korsun D. YU. Sravnitel’nyj analiz zakonoproekta Verhovnogo Suda RF o dekriminalizacii ryada prestuplenij nebol’shoj
tyazhesti i vstupivshih v silu izmenenij v UK RF: ot idei k realizacii [Comparative analysis of the draft law of the Supreme Court
of the Russian Federation on decriminalization of a number of minor crimes and amendments to the Criminal Code of the
Russian Federation that have come into force: from idea to implementation]. Sovremennaya nauka: aktual’nye problemy
teorii i praktiki. Ekonomika i pravo – Modern science: topical problems of theory and practice. Economics and Law, 2016,
no. 11, pp. 135–140. (In Russ.).
11. Kuznecov, A. P., Kurdyukov S. I. Celi ugolovnogo nakazaniya: teoretiko-prikladnoe issledovanie [Purposes of criminal
punishment: theoretical and applied research]. Rossijskaya yusticiya – Russian justice, 2019, no. 3, pp. 4–7. (In Russ.).
12. Kuznecova N. F. Znachenie obshchestvennoj opasnosti deyanij dlya ih kriminalizacii i dekriminalizacii [Significance
of social danger of acts for their criminalization and decriminalization]. Gosudarstvo i pravo – State and law, 2010, no. 6,
pp. 67–75. (In Russ.).
13. Markuncov S. A. Eshche raz k voprosu ob ugolovnom prostupke [Once again on the issue of criminal misdemeanor].
Materialy XVI Mezhdunarodnoj nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii «Ugolovnoe pravo: strategiya razvitiya
v XXI veke» [Materials of the XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference «Criminal Law: Development Strategy in
the XXI Century»]. Moscow, 2019, pp. 358–364. (In Russ.).
14. Kuznecov A. P., CHernyh E. E. (red.) Ugolovnoe pravo Rossii. Obshchaya chast’ [Criminal law of Russia. A common
part]. Moscow, 2018. 563 p. (In Russ.).
15. Fisun A. V. O nekotoryh problemah vvedeniya kategorii «ugolovnyj prostupok» v Ugolovnyj kodeks Rossijskoj Federacii
[On some problems of introducing the category of «criminal misdemeanor» in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation].
Theoretical & Applied Science, 2018, no. 5, pp. 40–43. (In Russ.).
16. Caturyan T. V. Problemy klassifikacii prestuplenij v ugolovnom prave Rossijskoj Federacii. Diss. kand. yurid. nauk [Problems
of classification of crimes in the criminal law of the Russian Federation. Diss. PhD. in Law]. Stavropol, 2004. 172 p. (In Russ.).
