Abstract: The subject of this research is construction of the elements of crime using administrative prejudice. The essence of this method of construction consists in the fact that an administrative offense that has been committed by the same individual within a legally established period of time is being “transformed” into a criminal offense. The article examines the historical aspect of the aforementioned means of structuring: questions pertaining to the conditions under which it originated and saw its further development within the framework of specific legal structures. The author conducts the analysis of the processes of origin and evolution of the structuring of the elements of crime using administrative prejudice. The examination includes the current approaches within the legal theory towards perception of the nature of origin of the administrative prejudice in criminal law. The author offers arguments that testify to the imperfectness of the approach, the essence of which lies in the fact that the elements of crimes with administrative prejudice had pre-revolutionary prototypes. The author also makes presuppositions that the norms containing elements of a crime with administrative prejudice have received their first official establishment during the pre-codification period of development of Russian criminal law.

Abstract: The subject of this research is construction of the elements of crime using administrative prejudice. The essence of this method of construction consists in the fact that an administrative offense that has been committed by the same individual within a legally established period of time is being “transformed” into a criminal offense. The article examines the historical aspect of the aforementioned means of structuring: questions pertaining to the conditions under which it originated and saw its further development within the framework of specific legal structures. The author conducts the analysis of the processes of origin and evolution of the structuring of the elements of crime using administrative prejudice. The examination includes the current approaches within the legal theory towards perception of the nature of origin of the administrative prejudice in criminal law. The author offers arguments that testify to the imperfectness of the approach, the essence of which lies in the fact that the elements of crimes with administrative prejudice had pre-revolutionary prototypes. The author also makes presuppositions that the norms containing elements of a crime with administrative prejudice have received their first official establishment during the pre-codification period of development of Russian criminal law.