The problem of legal regulation of a "spontaneous" criminal group (crowd) in the Russian criminal law
The article considers the problems of qualification of group crimes existing in the Russian criminal law. The activity of a «spontaneous» criminal group having an independent criminal law character is only indirectly reflected in the Criminal Law. A brief historical retrospective analysis of the Russian legislation indicates that the group crime was always regarded as more dangerous phenomenon than a crime committed by one person or even by accomplices. To fill in this gap in the modern criminal law the author proposes to consolidate this form of group criminal activity as an independent rule in the rules of the General Part of the Russian Criminal Code.