Penalty as a form of punishment in the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences of the RF

In the article the comparative characteristic of penalty, both as a criminal and administrative punishment is given, the contradictions in a legislative regulation of the penalty in the Criminal Code of the RF and the Code on Administrative Offences of the RF are revealed. It is stated that while solving tactical problems of struggle against this or that type of offenses, for the last years a legislator chaotically have made changes in the Code on Administrative Offences of the RF and generated a number of tendencies which have negative consequences - the sufficient amount of administrative offenses are punished much more severely by the state than a variety of criminal offenses.