Criminal Responsibility as Legal Fiction
Article deals with methodological issue on legal status of criminal responsibility and its inter-branch properties. On the basis of research conducted an author's approach to the category is formulated. In particular, the author expresses the view that criminal responsibility is unable to carry out its functions because of the lack of a proper understanding of it both in practice and in criminal law doctrine. The author also points out criminal procedural, criminal correctional and partly administrative legal content of criminal responsibility, which does not allow speaking of its belonging exclusively to the field of criminal law. On this basis and according to the results of the article the author comes to conclusion on the need for further development of criminal legal influence as a relatively new and increasingly relevant to criminal law category.