Title of the article

Problems of Rape Qualification

 Authors 

Alina G. Serskova — Master student, Institute of Law, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya Street, Penza, 440026, Russia, alinatri1804@mail.ru 

 Category 

CRIMINAL LAW, LAW ENFORCEMENT

Year,.Volume, Number 

2020, Vol. 8, № 4 (32)

 Pages 

132-138

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

34

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-16

 Abstract 

The article provides an overview of the legislation that criminalizes rape in the Russian Federation. Scientific understanding of the problems of qualifying rape as a criminal offense is necessary for effective criminal legal protection of the individual in the Russian Federation. Most of the norms of the criminal law contain clear, from the point of view of qualification, compositions. However, the criminal offence of rape raises a number of questions in practice. This is primarily because often only the victim's testimony is needed to qualify rape. The current realities of public relations are characterized by a high degree of complexity and rapid variability that requires continuing efforts to analyse the state of social relations, the identification of gaps and contradictions in the legislation regulating those or other public relations, and direct.

 Keywords 

criminal law, qualification of the crime, composition of the crime, crimes against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of the person, rape

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Serskova A.G. Problems of Rape Qualification. Electronic scientific journal «Science. Society. State», 2020, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 132-138, available at: http://esj.pnzgu.ru. DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-16. (In Russian).