The concept and legal nature of the institute for compensation for harm caused as a result of a crime
In recent years, in the legal literature and law enforcement practice, there has been an actualization of the interest of researchers in the problem of compensation for harm caused as a result of the commission of a crime. The points of view expressed in the literature on the branch affiliation of this institution are very different. The article analyzes the argumentation of various authors about the civil legal, civil procedural, criminal legal, criminal procedural or intersectoral (complex) legal nature of this institution. It is concluded that compensation for harm is a complex intersectoral institution that exhibits specific narrow-industry properties of the compensation and restoration mechanism, the norms of which determine the amount of material or other compensation to the victim, the procedure for its implementation, change in the scope of rights and obligations of participants in criminal law relations in the presence of the fact of compensation for the harm caused. Within the framework of a particular branch of law, the concept of compensation for harm is filled with the corresponding content, which is formed by the rules of law that regulate the range of specific social relations, and therefore the concept of compensation for harm forms precisely a sectoral and self-sufficient institution in terms of tasks and subject matter of legal regulation.