Responsibility for Hooliganism: Changes in Legislation

The article is devoted to hooliganism, one of the elements of crimes, which has long been known to our (and foreign) legislation and which is constantly undergoing changes. This is partly due to the fact that the legislator wants to bring the wording of the law in line with the requirements of the practice, partly because our life today is changing rapidly, and new forms and types of hooliganism, which have been missing until recently and could not even exist: telephone hooliganism, hooliganism in social networks on the Internet. Tomorrow something else may appear. The past few years have seen dramatic increase in the wanton disruption of public order on airplanes, on trains and on different vessels. Very often, such hooligan actions pose a threat to the secure work of the vehicle and endanger the lives and safety of passengers and other persons. On April 3, 2017 Federal Law No. 60-FZ introduced relevant amendments into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, concerning responsibility for hooliganism and hooligan related crimes. There are two changes. Firstly, Part 1 of Art. 213 was supplemented by clause C: "on rail, inland waterway, sea or air transport, as well as on any other public transport"; Secondly, the Criminal Code was supplemented with Section 2671 "Actions Threatening the Safe Operation of the Vehicle". The article analyses these changes

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