Open AccessCorrelation of administrative drug-related offences and drug-related crimes: past, present and future
Author(s) -
А.V. Fedorov,
present drug-related crimes past
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
administrativnoe pravo i process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2071-1166
DOI - 10.18572/2071-1166-2015-1-10-22
Subject(s) - legislation , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , drug , criminology , political science , character (mathematics) , law , psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , geometry , mathematics
The article concerns issues of correlation of administrative drug-related offences and drug-related crimes; substantiates the conclusion that administrative drug-related offences and drug-related crimes have a feature of public danger and the criteria for delimitation thereof are of a conditional and formal character. The author notes the dynamic character of correlation of administrative drug-related offences and drug-related crimes and the tendency to increase the number of administrative drug-related offences and crimes. The attention is drawn to the phenomenon of reciprocity of certain administrative drug-related offences and crimes when actions similar by the objective side are reflected both in the Criminal Code of the RF and the Code of Administrative-Law Offences of the RF. The author analyses the legislation of the People’s Republic of China and the Kingdom of Spain related to criminal responsibility of juridical persons for drugrelated crimes. Taking into consideration foreign practices the author considers the issue of necessity of adding to the administrative responsibility of juridical persons for drug-related offences of a new type of responsibility — criminal responsibility of juridical persons.