The concept of criminal misconduct: problems and prospects of development

The article considers the concept of criminal misconduct as one of the possible measures of humanization of criminal legislation. The provisions of the draft law, in which the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation proposed to introduce this concept into practical use, have been studied. A criminal offense is a certain crime of minor gravity, at the time of which a person does not have a criminal record, and also was not released from criminal liability for one year before the commission of the act. The author believes that the projected place of fixing a criminal offense could be Part 3 of Article 14 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which would avoid the identification of a criminal offense, a minor act and a crime. The author describes the differences between these categories.