ON THE GENESIS OF THE LEGAL CATEGORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE PUNISHMENT IN RUSSIA
The article presents the author's view on the development of the legal category of administrative punishment in different periods of national history. Administrative punishment is considered as the final legal assessment of the offender's wrongful act. The article presents the key scientific positions on the correlation of the concepts of "administrative punishment" and "administrative punishment". The authors substantiate the conclusion about the regularity of the refusal of the legislator from the term "administrative penalty" due to the fact that the administrative penalty is designed to perform not only a punitive function, but also act as a guarantee of due recognition, observance and protection of human and citizen rights.