Differentiation of Criminal Liability of Accomplices in a Crime

Abstract

Relevance. This article discusses topical issues of differentiation of criminal liability of accomplices in a crime, which has a certain specificity, taking into account the characteristics of individual manifestations of criminal activity. The purpose is to analyze both general and special rules of criminal law regulation of the limits of liability of ac-complices in a crime. The objectives of the study are identifying the problems of criminal law regulation of the limits of liability of ac-complices in the crime and suggest ways to solve them. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is general scientific and particular scientific methods of cognition of reality, which made it possible to investigate the issues of differentiating the criminal liability of accomplices in a crime. Results. The legal mechanisms available in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for differentiating the criminal liability of accomplices are analyzed. It has been determined that the accessory nature of complicity underlies the differentiation of the criminal liability of accomplices. It was revealed that the main means of differentiating criminal responsibility are forms of complicity. Conclusion. The existing means of differentiating criminal responsibility do not ensure the implementation of the principle of justice. The form of complicity cannot always be used as a means of differentiating the criminal liability of ac-complices, other means, such as the allocation of special compositions in which the organizer or intermediary is presented as the perpetrators of certain crimes, is private (and not always an effective means of differentiating criminal liability). It is proposed to legally link the amount of punishment. assigned to the performer and other accomplices.