Criminal Law Protecting a Life of a Human
Today a declarative proclamation that a man is the highest value is not supported by relevant legal regulations. According to the author, the current legislation does not fulfill the task of ensuring human security. Unfortunately, this is confirmed by criminological research including statistical data involving violent crime in Russia. Security of a person, his or her life and health should be treated as the most important public values not declaratively but in normative regulations, and their protection by criminal law means is one of the main functions of a state. The author proposes a new approach adequately reflecting existing threats to the construction of criminal law rules that represent a system of life and health protection as a single generic object of infringement representing the highest value