Molyanov, A.Y. Special munition of the police: on the issue of definition of a term: administrative legal aspect.

Abstract: The article concerns the problems regarding development of the definition “special munition” of the police of Russia. The author defined characteristic features of the term “special munition” in the spheres of legal and applied categories. Based upon the comparative analysis of the character of functioning of special munition and weapons of non-lethal impact, then the author makes a conclusion that these two terms are not identical. The author analyzes the defects of the existing definitions of “special munition”, and then he offers his own definition , which was developed with due respect to the tactical and technical characteristics of the special munition. The methodological basis for the scientific article was formed by the current achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general philosophical, theoretical and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.). Special munition plays a special role in the technical equipment of the Russian police divisions. Special munition means serve as universal security guarantees for the police staff and citizens due to their direct application to influence an offender. There is currently a large number of publications concerning legal munition. However, there is no unified approach to a definition of “special munition”, which confuses the very nature of the issue and prevents its analysis with the vast variety of classifications with no regard to the character of functioning of special munition.

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