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Tasakov S.V., Kupirova Ch.Sh.
Problems of compatibility between the concept of social justice and the phenomenon of administrative prejudice in the criminal law of the Russian Federation
Keywords: criminal law, social justice, administrative prejudice, responsibility, human rights
Administrative prejudice is one of the phenomena that make up the specifics of the national legal culture. Administrative prejudice refers to the procedures for establishing criminal liability for recidivism of administrative offenses. At this, neither legislators nor the academic community have agreed on a single interpretation of the essence of administrative prejudice. the validity of its introduction into the criminal law (whether the totality of administrative offenses is the basis for their qualification as elements of a complex offense), and criteria for its effectiveness. The lack of theoretical certainty of administrative prejudice phenomenon in the history of Russian jurisprudence raised issues related both to the practical implementation of the norm in question and to the scope of its compliance with the principle of social justice, a fundamental parameter of legal culture. The purpose of the study is to determine the conformity of institutions with administrative prejudice and the concept of social justice in the framework of improving the norms of legal culture. Materials and methods. The research used general scientific (analysis, deduction) and special legal methods (comparative legal analysis, method of legal interpretation). To achieve this goal, regulations, scientific publications and electronic resources of official websites of legal reference legal systems were used. Results. The issues of correlation between the concept of justice and the format of practical implementation of administrative prejudice identified the problem of compliance of the norm of transformation of administrative responsibility into criminal responsibility with the basic principles of legal culture. In particular, a set of contradictions was identified related to the problem of double punishment, a subjective interpretation of the offender's personality, ensuring the norms of legal equality, the conformity of punishment with the severity of the offense, and the presumption of innocence as inherent components of administrative prejudice. Conclusions. The Russian legal culture has developed antonymic polar approaches to the conformity of the norms of administrative prejudice and the resources of their enforcement with the principles of social justice. The concept of combining various offenses as the basis of criminal prosecution contradicts the law and the parameters of defining a crime as multiple and as a single one. The basis for characterizing an offense as a crime is an act that constitutes a significant public danger, which contradicts the composition of an administrative offense. The norms of administrative prejudice constitute an ambiguous system based on interpreting a set of repeated offenses as malicious recidivism, which obviously cannot be proven and, therefore, constitutes a violation of the basic principles of criminal law.
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About authors
- Tasakov Sergey V.
- Doctor of Law Sciences, Professor, Vice-Rector for General Affairs, Head of the Department of Criminal Law Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (tasakov@mail.ru; )
- Kupirova Chulpan Sh.
- Candidate of Law Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law Disciplines, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (chulpan27@bk.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5573-5050)
Article link
Tasakov S.V., Kupirova Ch.Sh. Problems of compatibility between the concept of social justice and the phenomenon of administrative prejudice in the criminal law of the Russian Federation [Electronic resource] // Oeconomia et Jus. – 2025. – №4. P. 82-93. – URL: https://oecomia-et-jus.ru/en/single/2025/4/8/. DOI: 10.47026/2499-9636-2025-4-82-93.
