CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PERSONS WHO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES IN THE STATE OF INTOXICATION
The article analyses the criminal legislation in the application of such circumstance aggravating punishment as crime in a state of intoxication. Different points of view on a concept of state of intoxication and its value for qualification of crimes and criminal liability are considered. It is emphasized that now the legislator establishes the rule according to which the person who commits a crime in a state of intoxication caused by alcohol, drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogs, new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances or other intoxicating substances is held to criminal liability on general basis. In the article, we describe foreign criminal laws concerning rules of sentencing a person who committed a crime in state of intoxication. The authors paid special attention to consideration of court practice of application of this circumstance aggravating punishment. The authors illustrate the lack of uniformity in approach of judicial authorities to application of this circumstance. The authors formulated the proposals for improving the existing criminal legislation. In addition, the authors point to the need for the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which would explain in detail the accounting rules of state of intoxication at criminal sentencing