The forms of penalization of socially dangerous acts
The article examines the issue of the forms of expressing penalization for the socially dangerous acts. The kinds of these forms are given in the General and Special sections of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “semantical,” “substantive,” “enumerative,” “modal,” “systemic,” “sanctioned,” as well as their contents, sequence, differences, and causes. Due to the fact that it is ineffective and not true, the author proposes to change the perception of the criminal penalties list from “vertical” - based on the increase in the severity of punishment, to “horizontal,” in which the punishments are grouped depending on the categories of the crimes.