The Law Enforcement Academy held a regular meeting of the Criminological Forum, which discussed the problems of delimiting criminal offenses, criminal misconduct and administrative offenses.
Representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Council, the academic and attorney community, members of the Parliament, and employees of the central law enforcement and state bodies took part in the discussion of the agenda.
Opening the forum, the rector of the Academy, Yergali Merzadinov, noted the important role of the dialogue platform of the Criminological Forum in discussing and solving urgent problems of improving criminal procedure legislation.
Domestic legislation provides for liability for administrative offenses, criminal offenses and crimes. But, as practice shows, the unambiguous and unmistakable qualification of various acts is often hampered by the lack of clear criteria for distinguishing a crime from other offenses, determining the degree of public danger, and, as a consequence, choosing measures of responsibility for their commission.
Thus, in the course of a scientific study, serious deviations were revealed in the ratio of the sizes of punishments in the criminal and administrative legislation. The facts of disproportion of criminal liability have been established when, for some misconduct, the punishment is provided higher than for crimes. Proceeding from this, scientists made an attempt to determine the criteria for delineating acts based on the values enshrined in the Constitution.
According to the results of the forum, proposals aimed at improving the state criminal policy were developed.
