The Basis, Principles and Stages of Criminalization of Acts Committed Exclusively by Women

The purpose of the research. The article examines the grounds, principles and stages of the criminalization of acts committed exclusively by women, as one of the unique methods of criminal policy. It is noted that the basis for the criminalization of acts committed exclusively by women, the responsibility for which in the current version of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is established in Art. 106, stands for their public danger of the act. Conclusions. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that timely criminalization requires additional criminal legal protection not only for newborn children, but also for the introduction of interim measures to protect the fetus while still in the womb. It is noted that the next step in this direction should be the criminalization of infliction of varying degrees of severity of harm to health inflicted by a mother on her newborn child; harm to health or murder of two or more children by their mothers; forms of infanticide by the mother, burdened by premeditated intent; causing death through negligence by a mother to a newborn child in a state of intoxication caused by the use of alcohol, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues, new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances or other intoxicating substances

social danger of the act, the basis for the criminalization of acts, crimes committed exclusively by women