Reference:
Kruglikov, L.L..
Definition, bases and types of
differentiation of responsibility
for crimes and other offences
// LEX RUSSICA (Russian Law). – 2014. – № 3.
– P. 305-313.
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Abstract: The article provides the definition of differentiation of legal responsibility, regarding the matter of
its types, discussing the problem of its bases. Special attention is given to the goal of guaranteeing the succession
of various types of responsibility in law, provision of demarcation lines between them by the law. The
author understand differentiation of legal responsibility as establishing its various types (forms) by the law
depending on the most typical characteristic features, providing for general characteristics of various groups
of offences. The basis for the interdisciplinary legal differentiation is first of all the character of danger of the
relevant type of behavior or the character of its public danger, harmfulness. In this respect, there is need to
follow certain rules, including succession in the process of interdisciplinary differentiation, including the sphere
of legal responsibility. From the “vertical” standpoint, the article singles out the following types of responsibility
differentiation of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: a) legal; b) interdisciplinary; c) within a
single branch of law (criminal law, criminal responsibility); d) institutions of criminal law; e) within a group or
sub-group of norms; f) within a specific norm. Within a branch of law, it is acceptable to differentiate among:
1) the bases for legal responsibility; 2) forms (types) of responsibility; 3) amount of criminal responsibility and
criminal punishment.
Keywords: crime, other offence, legal responsibility, differentiation of responsibility, characteristic features of differentiation, bases for legal differentiation, classification of responsibility differentiation, interdisciplinary legal differentiation, differentiation of criminal responsibility, criminal legislation.
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