Improving rules of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as the implementation of criminal policy

The paper analyzes trends in the criminal policy development through the prism of amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, provides their assessment, and indicates the problems caused by the non-systematic approach to the frequent and targeted amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code that have a multidirectional nature. Some of them are socially and criminologically justified, while others, on the contrary, raise doubts about the need for their legalization. The first ones should include the criminalization of acts that provoke suicidal behavior. The emergence of these rules in Chapter 16 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation supplemented by Articles 110.1, 110.2 along with the partial criminalization of forced suicide in Article 110 allows us to talk about a set of rules associated with the incitement to suicide. The author analyzes other amendments as well, in particular the emerging, sometimes unjustified enthusiasm of the legislator for the extension of special rules. It is debatable to distinguish such subgroup of criminal minor offences as petty crimes, revive the prejudicial standards.