On the criminal-legal significance of compensation for damage from a crime

Introduction: the article examines the existing and possible criminal-legal significance of this circumstance on the basis of official statistics on the annual damage caused by crimes and the practice of its compensation. Attention is drawn to the unsystematic nature of the regulatory legal framework for solving this problem in the branches of criminal legislation, it is proposed to provide in criminal legislation a provision obliging the person who committed the crime to compensate for the damage caused by him, which corresponds to the understanding of the principle of justice in this area of legal regulation. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis consists of general scientific and private scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, correlation, expert assessments. The results of the study: the possible means of solving the problem of compensation for damage by the norms of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are determined. Findings and Conclusions: in substantive criminal law, it is necessary to provide a general criminal legal basis for compensation for damage from a crime. The solution of this issue could be implemented within the framework of the regulation of the principle of justice, in connection with which Article 6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation should be supplemented with the following provision: “The person who committed the crime compensates for the damage caused by the crime.”