Nichugovskaya, O.N. Topical issues on formation of the system of punishments under the modern criminal legislation of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: The system of criminal punishment now truly calls for a change. In order to prove it, the author of this article points out that by far not all the kinds of criminal punishments are applied in practice, and those applied do not seem to achieve the goals named in Art. 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: namely, restoring the civil fairness, correction of the criminal and prevention of the new crimes…