ABOUT SOME NEGATIVE TRENDS OF CHANGES AND EDITIONS MADE IN THE SPECIAL PART OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
The article discusses the negative trends of changes and addition that were made to the Special part of the criminal code of the Russian Federation. To them, the author mentions: excessive introduction of special rules in the Special part of the criminal code; obviously overestimated the amount of individual articles; a continuous increase in articles of the Special part of the criminal code, which with high probability will not be applied in practice; «splitting» of individual cases, during which there are «new» articles of the criminal code; tougher penalties for certain careless crimes; unjustified expansion of judicial discretion in sentencing. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the negative legislative experience when developing new provision of the criminal low.