Problems of iatrogenic crimes qualification

Purpose: Development of recommendations for improving the theoretical basis and law enforcement practice of qualifying iatrogenic crimes. Methodology: The legal method and the method of legal hermeneutics were formally used, and postclassical methodology. Results: This article accumulates the conclusions of the author's master's thesis research on this theme, successfully defended on June 30, 2021 at the St. Petersburg Law Institute of the University of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. The article deals with the problems of qualification of crimes against life and health, committed by medical workers. The author demonstrates an analysis of the most common and still unresolved issues of the correct assessment of inappropriate provision (non-provision) of medical care. Provisions are formulated that allow solving the difficulties of differentiating iatrogenic crimes and their delimitation from other criminal acts. The peculiarity of the research consists in the development of solutions to the raised problems exclusively de lege lata. Novelty/originality/value: The article is valuable, since for the first time it accumulates the latest practice and scientific research on the topic of research, demonstrates specific proposals for resolving the problems of qualifying iatrogenic crimes.