Public danger and criteria for its assessment
Public danger is a fundamental sign of any crime, but to date law-making practice has not developed an algorithm to determine the presence or absence of a public danger in an act sufficient to recognize it as criminal. Among legal scholars there is also a lack of consensus on issues of the essence of the social danger of an act and the criteria for its determination. All this gives rise to the inclusion in the criminal law of norms providing for liability for acts whose social danger is very conditional. On the basis of the materials studied in this work criteria are formulated, the establishment of the totality of which allows recognizing the act as socially dangerous and, as a consequence, criminally punishable.