title: “Dead” special provisions of the criminal law as a criterion of excessive (unjustified) specialization
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metadata.value: Karavaeva, Yuliya S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:58:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:58:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Karavaeva, Yuliya S. 2022. “Dead” special provisions of the criminal law as a criterion of excessive (unjustified) specialization. Pravovedenie 66 (1): 69–79. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.104 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38320
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metadata.value: Special norms in the criminal law, as a rule, are designed to solve the problem of differentiation
  of responsibility, so they must contain such features of the composition that significantly
  change the typical degree of public danger of the act and (or) the figure. These norms are constructed using the casuistic method, which is due to their nature and focus on reflecting social
  relations that are objectively differentiated by the criterion of public danger. The increase in the
  number of special criminal law norms indicates a steady trend of specialization of the criminal
  law, which, in the absence of signs of redundancy, is quite normal. The excess of specialization
  manifests itself in “overcriminalization” or, in other words, socially non-conditioned criminalization
  of acts that already fall under the regulation of the current law, but are artificially singled
  out by the legislator through the casual use of a particular attribute. As the analysis of the latest
  criminal law novels shows, the status and role position of the guilty person acts as the specified
  feature in most cases. Its appearance in the crime as a special feature of the subject means that
  the legislator assumes criminal protection of a certain segment of public relations, in which the
  subject is a participant, and the encroachment on which is possible only under this condition.
  As a rule, in practice, these special rules are either not applied at all, or are applied in isolated
  cases, which is one of the indicators of unjustified criminalization and, consequently, excessive
  specialization. In science, the opinion is expressed that the so-called “dead” norms in the criminal
  law are designed to solve the problem of preventing the relevant acts, which, in our opinion,
  is an attempt to justify intensive lawmaking. Given that this is an unjustified criminalization, such
  protection by the criminal law is artificial due to the lack of an objective need for it. The reason
  for the appearance of appropriate special norms, as a rule, is the political conjuncture, the essence
  of which ultimately boils down to demonstrating efforts to combat crime, which in science
  is precisely called “imitation”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 66; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: specialization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: differentiation of responsibility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: special norms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: status-role characteristics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Dead” special provisions of the criminal law as a criterion of excessive (unjustified) specialization
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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