Email this article Occupation of the highest position in the criminal hierarchy: features of criminal law qualifications
- Authors: Pikin I.V.1, Tarakanov I.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
- Issue: Vol 5, No 19 (2021)
- Pages: 500-509
- Section: Материальное право
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2587-9340/article/view/303972
- ID: 303972
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We consider the features of criminal law qualification of occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. We analyze the provisions of Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the points of view of legal scholars about the specifics of establishing the highest criminal status of a person. As a result of this study, it is concluded that the establishment of the place of a specific subject in the criminal hierarchy is possible in those cases when the person confirms his criminal status or the persons involved as witnesses confirm that this person has a higher position in the criminal hierarchy. We believe that when determining the subject of a given crime, it is necessary to establish such signs as the subject’s opinion regarding this status; the opinion of the persons who were part of this criminal organization regarding the position of this person in it; his possession of “powers” of an administrative nature in relation to members of this criminal group or other persons adhering to “thieves’ concepts”; the opinion of other persons with the highest position in the criminal hierarchy regarding the criminal status of the subject. At the same time, it should be recognized that there is an urgent need for a judicial interpretation of the issues of qualification of a crime provided for in Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which necessitates the preparation of an appropriate resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
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Ivan V. Pikin
Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: vipikin@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0355-5816
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Head of Criminal Law and Criminology Department of Law Faculty, Colonel of Internal Service
Russian Federation, 67e Bolshaya Nizhegorodskaya St., Vladimir 600020, Russian FederationIlya A. Tarakanov
Vladimir Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
Email: il8@list.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7355-1952
Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology Department of Law Faculty, Colonel of Internal Service
Russian Federation, 67e Bolshaya Nizhegorodskaya St., Vladimir 600020, Russian FederationReferences
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