The Importance of the Interdisciplinary Nature of the Institution of Exemption from Criminal Liability

The paper, studying several decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, examines the interdisciplinary nature of exemption from criminal liability and the mutual influence of criminal law and criminal procedure legislation on the norms of this institution. Based on practical experience, the legislator currently continues to make changes to this institution. Thus, exemption from criminal liability can be considered as an absolutely independent and separate inter-branch institution, which establishes a direct influence of the inter-branch nature of exemption from criminal liability not only on its internal «compromise» nature, but also on the procedure for its implementation. Exemption from criminal liability is not a strict imperative consequence of objectively determined circumstances of criminal law, but the result of the choice and agreement of two parties in criminal proceedings when such circumstances arise.