UDK: 343.1

Vitaliy V. Tarasenko - Candidate of Law, lecturer of the department ‘Criminal Law’ of the Law faculty of the Voronezh State University

Abstract. According to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, proclaiming Russia a democratic law-governed country, where a person with his rights and freedoms is of the highest value. The Constitution’s duties are to recognize, observe and protect the rights and freedoms of a citizen; it guarantees everyone judicial protection of rights and freedoms; it ensures its justice on the basis of equality before the law and the court. Therefore, special requirements are imposed on the quality of laws that mediate the relationship of citizens with public authorities, in particular, those laws that establish measures of legal responsibility for offenses. In cases when the measures of public legal responsibility envisaged by law don’t correspond to social realities, resulting in excessive use of state coercion, the federal legislator must ensure their harmonization with the new social realities according to constitutional principles of equality, justice and humanism. In this aspect, according to the author of the current paper, there is currently a problem of depenalization of intoxication as a qualifying element of the corpus delicti of traffic rule violation and transport exploitation (p. 2, 4, 6 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of RF). The current paper has examined the law-making aspect of depenalization from the standpoint of legal-criminology, socio-economy and socio-psychology. On the basis of a critical analysis of the systematic tightening of criminal liability for criminal violations of traffic safety requirements and transport exploitation committed by a person in a state of intoxication, a study of statistical data and judicial practice on this category of crimes, the author of the paper has formulated conclusions and proposals to improve the relevant provisions of the criminal law in terms of the depenalization of intoxication as a qualifying element of the corpus delicti designated by Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: law-making technique; legislator; a state of intoxication; violation of traffic rules; public relations in the field of road safety; public danger; depenalization.

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