Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Subject of research: the norms of the criminal law devoted to the purposes of punishment. Purpose of research: to establish and classify the functions of criminal punishment for environmental crimes. Methods of research: general scientific methods are used in the work: dialectical, logical, system-structural, analysis and synthesis, as well as some private scientific methods of cognition. The object of research: some criminal law views on the norms of the criminal law devoted to the purposes of punishment for environmental crimes. The main results of research: when studying the goals (functions) of punishment, the author came to the conclusion that it is necessary to distinguish those of them that are inherent in all types of punishments, and those that are inherent in individual punishments imposed for certain types of crimes. The conclusion is substantiated that the following functions of punishment should be fixed in place of the goals of punishment fixed in Article 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: detaining the person who committed the crime from new crimes (preventive function), restitution (restoration of the victim's position), compensation (compensation for harm caused), resocialization of the convicted person.
Author: Natalia I. Kuznetsova
Language: English
Topic: Criminal Law and Policy
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405807076