On the resolution of the merits of a civil claim in criminal proceedings

In the article, the author considers the issue of the possibility of resolving a civil claim in criminal proceedings, taking into account the position of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts of the Russian Federation. The author draws attention to the problems associated with the very term «resolution of a civil claim on the merits», an attempt is made to independently formulate the content of the term. Attention is drawn to different methods of assessing the amount of property damage, which are used, in one case, as a qualifying feature of the corpus delicti, in the other - when determining the amount of damage for the purposes of resolving a civil claim.