Russian Criminal Code Tutorial (General Part, Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Huang Daoxiu
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: The book "Criminal Law Tutorial (General Part)" was collectively compiled by the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the National Moscow Lomonosov University. It is based on the criminal law curriculum approved by the Legal Committee of the Teaching Methods Union of Russian Federation Universities in 1998. The tutorial presents a series of tasks. First, it aims to provide a theoretical (scientific) interpretation of the "Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" of 1996. The previous textbook with the same title was published in 1993, and its foundation was naturally the "Criminal Code of the Soviet Union of 1960" and the "Outline of Criminal Legislation of the Soviet Union and Its Union Republics of 1961." Second, it should elaborate on the practical application of the new Criminal Code over the past two years, particularly as reflected in the resolutions of the plenary sessions of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the courts of the federal subjects, as well as in the judgments and rulings of these courts on specific criminal cases. Third, it presents its stance on controversial issues in various general criminal law textbooks and interpretations of the Criminal Code from 1996 to 1998. Fourth, considering that the textbook was written at the end of the 20th century, this book pays special attention to the history of Russian criminal legislation in the century that is about to end. Fifth, this book takes note of the internationalization of criminal legal relations. This is partly due to the urgent need to combat international crimes—such as violations of peace and crimes against humanity, international terrorism, hostage-taking, illegal trade in weapons and drugs, and money laundering, among others—and partly because of Russia's integration process with international legal structures, including the Council of Europe and its European Court of Human Rights, the European Union, and others. Therefore, the authors of this book believe that the section on foreign criminal law in the tutorial can be expanded. The authors first utilized criminal codes of France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, and other countries, which have been translated and annotated by their department, as well as the criminal legislation of the United States and the United Kingdom. They also used model criminal codes of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and their new criminal codes, while paying considerable attention to several draft criminal codes of the Russian Federation in the 1990s.