Ways to eliminate gaps in regulating the status of victims and improve criminal legislation

This article describes ways to improve criminal legislation. The article raises topical issues of gaps in criminal law and the lack of a rule about the battered person, his criminal legal status arising from the qualification and sentencing of the guilty person. On the basis of this, the expediency of introducing the concepts of "victim" and "criminal legal status of the victim" in the criminal Code of the Russian Federation is justified