Multiplicity of crimes and responsibility for them: foreign experience

The study is aimed at analyzing the issues of the punishability of multiple crimes in the criminal legislation of some foreign countries. The main forms of multiple crimes are considered, as well as the procedure for imposing punishment for criminal acts committed within the criminal laws of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Netherlands. The author draws attention to the fact that these states single out aggregation and recidivism as forms of multiplicity of crimes, defining for them a special procedure for sentencing. At the same time, it is indicated that despite the identification of two forms of plurality in the legislation of the studied countries, which have a similar understanding, the issues of punishability are solved in different ways, which may be of some interest to the domestic legislator. Recommendations are given on possible ways to improve the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation in terms of the punishability of a plurality of crimes.