Conditionality of differentiation of criminal punishability: retrospective experience in formation of the national criminal code and new legislative dimensions

  • Andrey V. Shidlovsky Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Abstract

The author examines the features of penalisation and depenalisation in the Belarusian criminal law policy, the author considers the nature of differentiation of criminal punishability of acts in the discourse of pluralism of scientific methodologies. The grounds for the distribution of criminal punishability in the criminal law are revealed. The author’s vision of the system of criteria of conditionality of differentiation of criminal punishability of acts on the basis of axiological and anthropological methodology in combination with materialistic and constructivist worldview approaches is substantiated. The author proves the existence of a four-level system of differentiating criteria for evaluating the dosage of punishment by the legislator in a new dimension of the significance of social values and interests being protected.

Author Biography

Andrey V. Shidlovsky, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (law), docent; first deputy director of the Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training of Judges, Employees of the Prosecutor’s Office, Courts and Justice Institutions

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Published
2020-10-27
Keywords: differentiation of criminal punishability, criteria of conditionality, criminalisation, decriminalisation, penalisation, depenalisation
How to Cite
Shidlovsky, A. V. (2020). Conditionality of differentiation of criminal punishability: retrospective experience in formation of the national criminal code and new legislative dimensions. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law, 3, 107-119. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/law/article/view/3218
Issue
No 3 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law
Section
Сriminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics