GENERAL LEGAL CONCEPT OF HARM CAUSED BY CRIME IN THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION: HISTORICAL EXCURSION AND MODERN LEGAL REALITIES
The author analyzes the historical preconditions of consolidation of the legal provisions governing the conceptual bases of compensation for harm caused by the crime in the Russian legislation. This attempt is made in connection with the need to formulate the elemental composition of the Institute of compensation of harm caused by the crime, and search of ways of increase of efficiency of activity of public authorities to protect the rights of victims of criminal acts and the restoration of social justice through the use of compensatory mechanisms.