Pan'shin D.L. The concept of public individual in Russian administrative legislation

Abstract: The subject of the research is the concept of public individual on the base of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation and its description. The author compares the notions of "public individual" provided by the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offences. The author analyzes the explanations of the plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation related to the criteria which allow rating a person who has committed a crime as a public individual and this person's difference from other state public officers. The author uses the dialectic and juridical methods of analysis, compares criminal and administrative legislation, carries out the empirical synthesis of public individual definitions on the base of court practice. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the private opinion about the criteria defining the concept of "public individual" on the base of administrative legislation. Particularly, the author offers not to associate the notion of public individual as provided in the article 2.4 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation with the offense committed, since it causes particular problems with the qualification of acts committed by this category of persons and the institution of administrative proceedings against them. 

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