Social and legal justification of criminal liability for land damage in the Russian Federation

Agafonov Alexander Vladimirovich

In the article proposed by the author, from certain doctrinal legal and criminological positions, a formal attempt is made to identify and analyze the determinants of the subsequent criminalization of socially negative and socially dangerous encroachments on the biological quality and content of soil cover in the Russian Federation. In the course of this analysis, the author analyzed the works and works of quite well-known, both Soviet and Russian legal scholars on the present doctrinal and legal problems. At the same time, we have found that a significant part of them, as the main criteria for criminalizing socially negative and dangerous acts, distinguish precisely the social danger, identifying and fixing in the future in their works precisely the signs of the latter, which in turn either directly characterize it, or only indirectly cause this kind of danger. To substantiate and confirm his conclusions, the author also used the statistical data available to him from various law enforcement agencies of the modern Russian Federation. The article concludes that there is a slow but clear and obvious increase in such crimes as land damage.

Keywords:land damage, criminological analysis, criminal act, hygienic standards, sanitary and chemical indicators, microbiological indicators, environmental situation, socially determined negative phenomenon, public danger, criminalization, crime, crime, criminal law norm, statistical indicators.