Open AccessON SOME ISSUES OF IMPROVING CRIMINAL LEGISLATION TO COMBAT CRIMES IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Author(s) -
В.А. Полтарыхин,
А. Г. Максимов
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
rossijsko-aziatskij pravovoj žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-010X
DOI - 10.14258/ralj(2020)4.5
Subject(s) - legislation , criminal code , criminal law , political science , economic crime , meaning (existential) , order (exchange) , law , law and economics , business , sociology , psychology , finance , psychotherapist
During world crises, there is a significant increase in crime, including economic. This obvious postulatetakes on a completely new meaning during the current economic crisis, possibly the most serious in theentire modern history of mankind. The current crisis has caused an explosive growth of digital technologies,which are ubiquitous in various economic processes. An effective criminal law, as the most repressivelegal instrument, is designed to ensure the greatest possible stability in the most unstable periods ofsociety’s life. Chapter 22 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for many years has been criticizedby both scientists and practitioners. This study makes an attempt, based on a systematic analysis of thedoctrine of criminal law, the norms of special legislation, based on practical experience in law enforcementagencies, to identify the main shortcomings criminal legal protection of economic activity and to proposemechanisms for their elimination in order to increase the efficiency of protection of public relations fromillegal encroachments.