Criminal Legal Characteristic of Responsibility for Child Substitution

The protection and protection of the rights of the family is of paramount importance for the development of Russian society, since the directly indicated institution has a decisive influence on the formation and formation of the personality of minors. Within the framework of the above-mentioned human rights activities, issues that simultaneously affect the interests of children and their parents acquire special relevance. One of the most dangerous crimes in this area is the substitution of children, due to which many vital ties between biological relatives are violated, which, in general, can lead to significant problems in the development of the child. Despite the long existence of the criminal law providing for responsibility for this crime, in practice, all the nuances of its commission within the general composition are not always taken into account. The purpose of the scientific study is the criminal legal characteristic of responsibility for substitution of a child under Russian law. The author comes to the conclusion that substitution of a child is justifiably singled out as a criminally punishable act, since the circle of victims in this case is very wide, and it is not limited exclusively to the child. Attention is focused on the fact that the materials of law enforcement practice demonstrate, albeit small, but stable statistics on the commission of the above-mentioned crime, which is largely due to the difficulties of its identification and investigation. The decisive importance for the qualification of acts under Art. 153 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, characteristics of the subject and the subjective side of the substitution of a child. As a promising direction for improving criminal liability for this crime, the addition of Art. 153 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as a qualifying feature in the form of the use of official position.

substitution of a child, rights and interests of the family, mercenary and other base motives, criminal responsibility, Russian criminal legislation