Body of the crime as a system

Introduction: body of the crime is of paramount importance not only as a statutory concept in the Russian criminal legislation, but also as a tool to determine that an act is a crime, due to what the author of the criminal law study set the goal of researching the body of the crime as a system. Methods: the methodological framework for this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main ones are the methods of historicism, systematicity, analysis and comparative law. Results: the author’s well-founded position is based on the legislation and the opinions of the competent scientific community of the question of why the body of crime is a system. Based on the legal analysis of the theory of law provisions, the differentiation of characteristic features of the body of the crime as a statutory concept is carried out. The issues of legal regulation of various types of crimes are raised by using the system properties of the body of the crime. Conclusions: as a result of the study, the role of the body of the crime as a statutory concept for the further development of the Russian legislation was identified, and the features that allow us to speak of it as a system were identified. It is established that the body of the crime is a natural result of the development and improvement of those provisions that were laid down in the criminal legislation.