title: The problem of classism and equality in criminal law: Socio-legal analysis
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metadata.value: Shikhanov, Vladimir N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:53:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-10-20T20:53:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Shikhanov, Vladimir N. 2022. The problem of classism and equality in criminal law: Socio-legal analysis. Pravovedenie 66 (1): 43–68. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.103 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2022.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38319
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author problematizes the issue of equality of citizens before Criminal Code, as well as the
  question of classist nature of the criminal delinquency and, accordingly, criminal law. This debate
  has existed so far in the circle of jurists, different points of view are expressed, arguments
  are given. Meanwhile, the very understanding of the term “class” as applied to crime or criminal
  law has changed over time. The paper describes how the discourse on classism has changed,
  the positions of the Constitutional Court of Russia on equality are presented. Based on the data
  of judicial statistics, the author points to stable patterns when less severe penalties are imposed
  for crimes considered to be more serious in law. This phenomenon, which may seem paradoxical
  in terms of the doctrine of criminal law, has a criminological explanation. In all such cases,
  the courts respond to the social characteristics of the criminals: the defendants for more serious
  crimes are those who have used their official position, but these same persons have positive
  characteristics, they are socialized to the maximum extent possible. And on the contrary,
  those who committed less serious crimes did not have a someone official position and in general,
  for the most part, are representatives of lower social strata. The author substantiates the
  thesis that the theoretical and methodological features of the current criminal law, in particular
  the mechanisms for differentiating criminal liability and the system of criminal penalties, do not
  adequately take into account the social characteristics of crime, the actual system of social
  values in Russian society, and the features of social stratification. The entire system of criminal
  punishments and the vast majority of sanctions in the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal
  Code of Russia are based on a certain model of the hierarchy of the system of social values. At
  the same time, sociological studies make it possible to find that the indicated hierarchy model
  is divorced from reality, and therefore the criminal law is not an adequate reflection of real social
  relations. The author proposes to change the methodology of building a system of criminal penalties
  and sanctions in the articles of the Special part of the Criminal code. At the same time, it
  recognizes as a utopia the hope of ensuring equality of citizens before the law by establishing
  common and identical scales for all with a universal gradation of the severity of criminal penalties,
  since they contradict social reality.
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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 66; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criminal liability
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: differentiation of responsibility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social stratification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: class approach
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal equality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The problem of classism and equality in criminal law: Socio-legal analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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