THE SYSTEM OF CRIMES AGAINST LIFE: DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION TRENDS

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that at present it is possible to recognize crimes against life as one of the main threats to national security. The aim of research is to analyze the crimes system with considering object of assault, to identify trends in the development of the current criminal legislation. In this system, there are three subsystems of crimes, the object of which is human life: murder, infliction of death by negligence and incitement to suicide and related constituent elements of a crime. We give the criminal law characterization of murder as intended infliction of death to another person. It is stated that the infliction of death by negligence differs from murder only in the form of guilt. We support and justify the medical crimes structural separation. We give as an example the statistical data according to which every year on part 2 of article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation from 65 to 126 people are condemned. It is indicated that it is impossible to establish the number of medical workers prosecuted for this crime. In addition, it is concluded that such statistics are not comparable with the number of complaints filed by patients in connection with inadequate medical care, as well as with data, for example, the Office of Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) in the Voronezh Region on the frequency of discrepancies between clinical and pathological diagnoses, indicating a serious problem in the provision of medical care. We characterize the reformed institution of criminal liability for incitement to suicide. We made conclusion that the criminal law policy in the sphere of combating crimes against life is characterized by the expansion of the list of socially dangerous acts recognized as criminal.