Lokhmanov D.V. The case of Engel as a potential factor of criminal offences decriminalization in the Russian criminal law

Abstract: The research subject is the study of judicial practice of the European Court of Human Rights. The case of Engel precedent serves as a basis for differentiating between criminal and administrative offences. The case of Engel serves as a basis for reconsidering the decisions of Russian courts thus actualizing the issue of optimization of criminal and administrative offences, provided in special parts of the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. The research methodology comprises the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal-logical), and the methods of specific sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes the at present, in order to efficiently optimize criminal and administrative sanctions in financial and economic sphere it is necessary to apply the complex approach, based on the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and the formed doctrine provisions about legal liability in the national system of law. The novelty of the research lies in the proposals about using the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, particularly, the case of Engel, for differentiating the system of criminal and administrative sanctions. The article is prepared within the government task of the Financial University for 2015. The article is written using the “Consultant” system. 

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