The Concept and Signs of Compulsory Medical Measures

Relevance. Human security can be ensured not only by bringing the guilty person to criminal responsibility and imposing punishment, but also in some cases by prescribing compulsory medical measures. For the purpose and execution of which the fundamental categories are important, namely the concept and features that currently remain undeveloped.
The purpose it consists in the development of the concept and signs of compulsory medical measures.
Objectives: to study the Russian criminal law in terms of the regulation of compulsory medical measures; to identify doctrinal approaches to the definition of their concepts and characteristics; to develop and present the author's definition of compulsory medical measures.
Methodology. In the course of the conducted research, the following methods were used: dialectical method of cognition, general scientific (analysis and synthesis, logical methods) and private scientific methods of cognition (formal-legal, statistical analysis).
Results. Various positions of scientists concerning compulsory measures of medical character are designated, their signs are revealed, on the basis of which the author's definition of compulsory measures of medical character is presented.
Conclusion. Despite the fact that compulsory medical measures are actively studied by the scientific community, there is currently no consensus among scientists on the fundamental categories of PMMC, in particular, their concept and characteristics. Based on this, it seems necessary to fix it in the Russian criminal law, namely, in art. 98 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (while designating it «The concept and purpose of the application of compulsory medical measures») the following definition: compulsory measures of a medical nature are other criminallegal measures of state coercion provided for by the criminal law, imposed by the court on the basis of a guilty verdict or a decision to a specific person specified in Part 1 of Article 97 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, on behalf of the Russian state.

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