On the social conditionality of the legal regulation of responsibility for mass riots in the Russian Federation and foreign countries

The article is devoted to the consideration of the issue of social conditionality of the legal regulation of responsibility for mass riots. The relevance of the raised issues is due to the need to search for a causal relationship between the established legal criteria for establishing criminal liability for criminal acts of a crowd and theoretical provisions devoted to its (crowd) research as a social and psychological phenomenon. Through the prism of the theoretical views of representatives of various schools of law, attention is focused on the issues of distinguishing collective and personal responsibility for committing mass riots, a comparative legal analysis of the norms on criminal liability for mass riots is carried out, reflecting various approaches to regulating criminal legal counteraction to spontaneous or pre-organized actions of destructive crowds adopted in the legislation of a number of foreign countries. Based on the results of the study, the author formulated conclusions regarding the socio-legal conditionality of establishing measures of responsibility for the organization and commission of spontaneous criminal acts forming the composition of mass riots.