The first Criminal Code of Soviet Russia and the responsibility of professional criminals

Occupation: Leading researcher of the sector of Criminal Law, criminal procedure and criminology
Affiliation: Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 1

Pages

153-161

Abstract

In 2022, 100 years have passed since the adoption of the first Criminal Code of Soviet Russia — a fundamentally new codified act in the history of Russian legislation. The objectives of this study: to identify and analyze the provisions of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1922 aimed at combating professional crime; to assess their validity, novelty and consistency in the context of the criminal-political tasks that were set before the legislative bodies, as well as their conditionality of the socio-economic and criminological situation that was developing at that time; to create prerequisites for further research on the extent to which the approaches of the legislator to the criminal-legal fight against professional crime were embodied and developed in the subsequent criminal legislation. The article analyzes the main and qualified elements of crimes containing such signs as engaging in crimes of a certain type as a profession and committing a crime in the form of fishing. The rules of sentencing professional criminals and the application of other social protection measures to them, in addition to punishment, are considered. The prescriptions of the criminal law are set out in combination with the characteristics of the socio-economic and criminogenic situation of the early 20s of the twentieth century, the views of domestic lawyers of that time on the problems of criminal professionalism, assessment of the bases of legislative decisions, their gaps and shortcomings.

Keywords

Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1922, professional criminal, commission of a crime in the form of fishing, occupation with crimes as a profession, infrastructure of professional crime, criminal punishment, social protection measures, recidivism, the main corpus delicti, qualified corpus delicti, criminal suits, theft, purchase of knowingly stolen for sale, usury, counterfeiting

Received

15.07.2022

Publication date

20.02.2023

Number of characters

32400

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GOST	Skoblikov P. The first Criminal Code of Soviet Russia and the responsibility of professional criminals // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2023. – Issue 1 C. 153-161 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520024127-0-1 (circulation date: 30.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024127-0
MLA	Skoblikov, Petr A "The first Criminal Code of Soviet Russia and the responsibility of professional criminals." Gosudarstvo i pravo `1 (2023):153-161. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024127-0
APA	Skoblikov P. (2023). The first Criminal Code of Soviet Russia and the responsibility of professional criminals. Gosudarstvo i pravo (`1), pp.153-161 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520024127-0

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