MAIN CRITERIONS FOR PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT: REGULATION IN THE GUIDING BASICS OF CRIMINAL LAW OF THE RSFSR 1919
The article provides a brief analysis of the main criteria (general principles) of sentencing formulated in the Guiding basics of Criminal law of the RSFSR 1919. In the process of their consideration, the authors note the historical continuity of a number of provisions that have been reflected (with well-known corrections due to the peculiarities of the state’s existence) and the development in the Criminal Code of 1996