On the question of differentiating criminal and administrative liability for illegal organization and conducting games of chance

Based on the analysis of the criminal law doctrine, amendments in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, materials of case law related to the consideration of issues of bringing to criminal liability on charges of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 171.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as materials of bringing to administrative liability under Part 1 of Article 14.1.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, the authors established the main problematic aspects in terms of the differentiation between the crime under study and an administrative offense. Based on the results of the study, legislative amendments to current edition of legal acts are proposed. Such adjustments will promote uniformity of application of the criminal law in law enforcement and will eliminate errors in the qualification of illegal organization and conducting of games of chance as an administrative offense or as a crime.