The relation between the concepts of completed and unfinished crime, the stages of the crime and their significance for the qualification of crimes
In the science of Russian criminal law, an unfinished crime is considered in different ways: as a stage in the commission of a crime, as a stage in the development of an intentional crime, and as an unfinished criminal activity. At the same time, there is no definition of “the stage of the commission of a crime” in the Russian criminal legislation, but there are provisions on the definition of a completed and unfinished crime. Many researchers point to the need to refer an unfinished crime to the stage of committing a crime, since the titles of chapters should be within the boundaries of the legal essence of legal institutions, and in Ch. 6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, dedicated to unfinished crimes, provides for such institutions as a completed crime and voluntary refusal to commit a crime, which in its meaning is close to the concept of exemption from criminal liability.