The principles of sentencing are a separate category of criminal law. Opinions of scholars on the definition of the principles of sentencing and their types differ. It is impossible to formulate a specific exhaustive list of types of such principles. There may be many. However, in the criminal law literature, all researchers of the problem of sentencing must include the principle of justice in the types of principles of sentencing.
The article analyzes the development of the doctrine of judicial discretion in the history of criminal law. It has been proven that most of the modern theories of judicial discretion are integrative in nature, reflected in modern criminal codes. For example, the French Criminal Code of 1992 relies on the ideas of the school of “new social protection” and on the concepts and institutions developed by the classical school (in the case of the classification of criminal acts, guilt, insanity).
In the article the bribery of a voter's referendum as a separate bribery. Its features are determined by the specifics of the process. The attention paid to the specific features of bribing voters, by referendum, and in particular due to the presence zavualovanosti form an action, tangible criteria definition of illegal benefit others. Overview, knowledge of generic and specific features of bribing a voter's referendum will promote adequate criminal-legal assessment of this type of giving further improvement of the criminal legislation of Ukraine.
The article discusses the history of the concept of violence in the theory of criminal law. The modern approach to the interpretation of criminal violence. Attention is focused on the main features of the concept of violence that are important for the correct legal assessment of the criminal acts. Generalized conclusion about the priority and importance of criminal law approach to the definition of domestic violence related jurisprudence.