Features of criminal responsibility for crimes in the field of land relations

In this article, the author analyzes the specifics of criminal liability for crimes in the field of land relations, as a particularly significant mechanism for ensuring public and private interests of society and the state. According to the results of the analysis, the author concludes that the environmental situation in the state indicates the insignificance of sanctions for violations of the category in question, which in general poses a threat to the environmental safety of the Russian Federation. Criminal prosecution for land crimes is a rare phenomenon in Russian judicial practice due to the high latency of such acts and the underestimation by the preliminary investigation bodies and courts of the degree of their public danger. The active development of soil degradation processes, the misuse of agricultural land, the lack of a unified methodology for assessing the suitability of unused agricultural land for return to agricultural circulation, necessitate the elimination of numerous gaps and collisions, including in terms of improving the mechanism for bringing to legal responsibility for land offenses.