Current Criminal and Legal Policy in Russia with Regard to Penalization and Depenalization: Between Press and Compromise

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10.2991/assehr.k.200321.090How to use a DOI?

Keywords

criminal law policy, penalization, depenalization

Abstract

This study focuses on the current stage of development of the criminal policy in Russia in the context of penalization and depenalization processes. Penalization and depersonalization processes of an overall character have been analyzed in detail, thanks to which repression must be constantly brought in line with the realities of social reality and adequately reflect the nature and degree of social danger of commit offenses. The authors argue that it is unreasonable for the legislator to lift almost all restrictions on the use of a suspended sentence. The work reveals that the peculiarity of the criminal policy in Russia is that the mitigation of the criminal repression and limitation of criminal influence is achieved to a greater extent through the establishment of various grounds for exemption from the criminal responsibility and punishment in the law and wide application in practice, and to a lesser extent through decriminalization of socially dangerous acts. The study of changes in the current legislation leads the authors to the conclusion that depenalization is chosen as the direction of the criminal policy, which allows minimizing the costs of excessively harsh criminal repression.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A.I. Korobeev
AU  - R.I. Dremliuga
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Current Criminal and Legal Policy in Russia with Regard to Penalization and Depenalization: Between Press and Compromise
BT  - Proceedings of the XVII International Research-to-Practice Conference dedicated to the memory of M.I. Kovalyov (ICK 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 85
EP  - 90
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200321.090
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200321.090
ID  - Korobeev2020
ER  -