CATEGORIES OF CRIMES AND THE PLACE OF CRIMES OF EXCEPTIONAL GRAVITY AMONG THEM

In recent years a tendency has emerged that manifests itself in securing in a number of norms of the General Part of the Criminal Code a stricter attitude to certain types of crimes on the basis of their objects, and not in accordance with the category of crime. At the same time, the major importance of categories has become lost due to the fact that the legal consequences of referring to a particular category are unified and do not depend on the place of a certain type of crime in the Criminal Code. Critically comprehended are the novels included in Art. 15, 64, 73, 78, 79, 83 of the Criminal Code, undermining the system of categories of crimes and containing for certain types of crimes more severe consequences than for especially grave crimes. It is concluded that the legislative changes of recent years, including the increase in the number of crimes for which a life imprisonment is provided in an alternative with imprisonment for a certain period, indicate the actual creation of a new category of crimes not identified in Art. 15 of the Criminal Code, which can be conditionally called a crime of exceptional gravity.

categories of crimes, legal consequences of attributing a crime to a certain category, change of category by court, differentiation of criminal liability, lists of types of crimes, unification of the provisions of the criminal law, life imprisonment, toughening of the criminal law, crimes of exceptional gravity

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