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Samsonenko Julia Alekseevna
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Kuban State Agrarian University
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The article analyses the criminal legislation in
the application of such circumstance aggravating
punishment as crime in a state of intoxication.
Different points of view on a concept of state of
intoxication and its value for qualification of
crimes and criminal liability are considered. It is
emphasized that now the legislator establishes
the rule according to which the person who
commits a crime in a state of intoxication caused
by alcohol, drugs, psychotropic substances or
their analogs, new potentially dangerous
psychoactive substances or other intoxicating
substances is held to criminal liability on general
basis. In the article, we describe foreign criminal
laws concerning rules of sentencing a person
who committed a crime in state of intoxication.
The authors paid special attention to
consideration of court practice of application of
this circumstance aggravating punishment. The
authors illustrate the lack of uniformity in
approach of judicial authorities to application of
this circumstance. The authors formulated the
proposals for improving the existing criminal
legislation. In addition, the authors point to the
need for the Resolution of the Plenum of the
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which
would explain in detail the accounting rules of
state of intoxication at criminal sentencing