SOCIAL CONDITIONALITY OF ESTABLISHING CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR ILLEGAL PRODUCTION AND TURNOVER OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

The article examines the factors that served as the basis for the establishment of a criminal law ban on the illegal production and turnover of alcoholic beverages. The author analyzes scientific approaches to determining the grounds for criminalization of acts and analyzes the factors that gave rise to the formation of a criminal law ban. Taking into account the above approaches, the author identifies the following criteria for establishing a criminal law ban: public danger, its prevalence, compliance with the norms of current legislation, the impossibility of achieving the goals by the norms of other branches of legislation and the presence of forces of an objective possibility of the proof process. The analysis of the historical continuity of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the issue of criminal liability for illegal production and turnover of alcoholic beverages is carried out. According to the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the establishment of criminal liability by the legislator for illegal production and trafficking of alcoholic beverages is socially conditioned, since it was carried out taking into account scientific criteria for criminalizing acts.