The concept of natural crime and the anthropological school of criminal law (c. Lombroso and r. Garofalo)
The article discusses the idea of a natural crime, which was developed in the works of representatives of the anthropological direction in the science of criminal law, primarily such as C. Lombroso and R. Garofalo. The problem of natural crime, although it eventually lost its scientific interest due to the dominance of the sociological approach to the concept of crime today, but, nevertheless, in the opinion of the author of the article, it is still relevant. This is due to the fact that in modern criminal law science there is a widespread view that the essence of the crime is in public danger - the socalled. the material basis of a crime that exists objectively, regardless of the knowledge of the subject. The problem of natural crime is the problem of detecting a criminal substrate, highlighting an objective criterion for its detection. Therefore, a return to the problem of natural crime, including the historical and legal context, is important in the sense that it contributes to the understanding of the modern logic of existence and knowledge of crime.