Development of domestic criminal legislation and judicial practice on the grounds of criminal liability of gang members

The article considers the change in the grounds for criminal liability of gang members in the domestic legislation and in the practice of applying the criminal law on banditry. It is stated that since the determination of corpus delicti of banditry in the criminal law it has been recognized as a legally completed crime from the moment the gang was organized, and subsequent gang attacks did not receive an independent criminal legal assessment. Later in the judicial practice of its application the approach was formed, according to which the actions of gang members started to be qualified under Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation providing liability for specific crimes committed by gang members.