BIOLOGICAL (MEDICAL) AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITERIA OF INSANITYIN LAW
Relevance of research. Contemporary Russian legislation contains norms regulating the prosecution of persons suffering from mental disorders and to applying coercive measures of a medical nature. Study of the criminal responsibility of persons with mental disabilities is at the crossroads of legal, medical and psychological sciences. Interdisciplinary studies are always relevant. Goals and objectives are closely related with realization of criminal law, criminal procedure, and penal legislation. The purpose of work is analyze of significance of medical and psychological criteria of insanity. Materials and methods. Implementation of the work target was achieved based on analysis of the norms of criminal law, the practice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Great value is the study of materials of forensic psychiatry, which is considering the general characteristics of mental disorders. The methodology includes the scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Moreover, we are applied method of teleological interpretation, which is allowed analyze information and draw a conclusion. Results. Scientific cognition in the fields of psychology, medicine and law already brought to possibility develop, identify and incorporate into the Penal Code a norm is contained the definition of sanity and its criteria. The absence of this provision is currently in the criminal law proves his imperfection. Conclusions. Sanity is a legal category, which consists of two criteria (psychological and medical), each of which has its own characteristics. Every criterion must be independently investigated and determined before apply the criminal law.