MULTIPLICITY OF CRIMES AS CRITERION OF PUBLIC DANGEROUSNESS

Abstract

Due to the high social dangerousness and the presence of multiplicity of crimes ond problems in criminal law related to the application of its rules with multiple crimes, the article explores the concept of "social dangerousness of crimes" and " multiplicity of crimes," their relationship and impact of multiplicity of crimes at social dangerousness of their subject and vice versa, and as well as penalties that may be imposed for various forms of multiplicity. The conclusions are as follows: 1) the multiplicity of crimes does not impact directly the nature and degree of public dangerousness separately each of the crimes of its form, but increases progressively their overall social danger of the phenomenon of reality and greatly influences the quantitative and qualitative indicators of crime. This is the basic, objective evidence of public danger of multiple crimes, which in turn is a sign of high social danger of the person who committed it, and therefore usually requires the imposement to him/her of more severe punishment than in the case if such a person has committed one crime; 2) punishment at multiplicity of crimes is imposed by certain rules and has the statutory limits, so the final punishment they may not meet the common damage caused to them and their social danger. The more committed crimes that constitute multiplicity, the lower is the "price" for each a guilty person"pays", but because with each new crime in that person there are fewer restrictions and that he/she could lose and incentives law-abiding behavior.