Terrorist crimes in a retrospective analysis, their effectiveness and self-sufficiency

Abstract

Introduction. The norms of the Soviet and Russian criminal legislation on terrorist crimes analyzed in historical and modern perspectives allow us to consider the impact of legal technique and the quality of the criminal law prohibition on the state of crime rate. Materials and Methods. The paper investigates the criminal-political method of criminalization, but from the position of changing its volume over time. The methodological basis was the system method, analysis and synthesis, and the comparative historical method. Analysis. Quantitative and qualitative changes in the criminal law norms on terrorist crimes are analyzed and the state of criminal legislation is correlated with the statistical indicators of the crimes under consideration. The main goal is to form, taking into account the causes of terrorist activity, effective legal solutions of an anti-terrorist orientation. Results. The concludes that the content of criminal law prohibitions of terrorist activity historically underwent a fundamental qualitative change and currently includes acts that are different in terms of the object of encroachment. At the same time, it was the expansion of the list of offenses that led to the positive dynamics of this crime. In this connection, it is advisable to consider the change in the number of committed crimes of a terrorist nature in relation to the type of crimes committed and their terminological correctness. The article deals with the issues of the stages of forming legal prohibitions for terrorist crimes, against this background, qualitative design flaws in the criminal laws of 1922, 1926 and 1960 are highlighted. The formation of criminal law prohibitions was not devoid of constructive and substantive problems. The author draws attention to previously used conceptual apparatus including the concepts of terrorism, a terrorist act, a terrorist action, and its inherent terminological inconsistency.