False report about a crime as criminal phenomenon

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept and content of a false report about a crime as criminal phenomenon. It examines the objective and subjective features of messages of this type in the context of the relationship between the categories of "lie" and "crime", separates them from the border types of information dissemination. The author comes to the conclusion that a false report of a crime has a dual criminal nature and appears in the current Criminal code of the Russian Federation, firstly, as an independent crime in three different types (slander, false report about an act of terrorism and deliberately false denunciation), and secondly, as a method of committing a number of criminal attacks. As a result of the study, the author, on the basis of the allocation of constitutional features of this phenomenon, formulates the definition of a false report on the crime as the deliberate use of fictitious information about the Commission of a socially dangerous act prohibited by the criminal code, its preparation or participation in it, which did not take place in objective reality, or information containing an indication, as a criminal act, which, due to certain factual circumstances or legal features, is not.