Sekretareva T.M. On the question of purposefulness of establishment of the government compulsion in declaring a citizen as disabled

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the research of the question on correlation between the norms of civil and criminal legislation with regards to persons with psychic disorders, during the course of which the author determines an important principle of the legal norms – principle of usefulness. Due to the existing interrelation between the legal norms, the author notices the need for expansion of positions of the Article 281 of the Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation and codification of the new grounds necessary for individual petition to declare a citizen disabled – commission by him of an act of public endangerment prohibited by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author believes that the fact of diagnosing a person with a psychic disorder, which deprives him of the ability to be aware of their actions and responsible for them, in the area of criminal-legal and criminal-procedural relations can be and should be a circumstance that plays a useful role from the juridical perspective with the certain legal consequences for the civil and civil-procedural law. The author pays attention to the purposefulness of applying the compulsory-obligatory character to the process of declaring a citizen disabled, suggests making certain changes in the Civil Procedural Code and the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, as well as demonstrates the positive effect of these changes.

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