Criminal Misconduct in Criminal Law of the Russian Federation

To date, the current direction of research is the implementation of the principle of justice punishment for the crime committed. The article proposes the introduction of a new category of offences - criminal misconduct, which will occupy an intermediate link between an administrative offence and a criminal offence. The institute of criminal offense will allow to more accurately classify crimes by the degree of their public danger, to differentiate in detail the punishment for the convicted person, in accordance with the principles of justice and humanism, and to free convicts for minor or moderate crimes who committed them for the first time, from a vicious criminal conviction.