Criminal Law Characteristics and Problems of the Appointment and Execution of Criminal Punishment in the Form of a Fine

Introduction. The work is devoted to the analysis of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation and the judicial practice of the appointment and execution of criminal punishment in the form of a fine. The essence of the investigated criminal punishment is determined. The subject of the study was the statistical data of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the legal literature covering the problems of the appointment and execution of criminal punishment in the form of a fine. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to highlight the Russian practice of assigning and implementing criminal penalties in the form of fines, identifying problems and ways to solve them. Methodology. The goal was achieved using dialectical methods of scientific cognition of both general and private scientific research methods: formal legal, comparative legal, descriptive, functional and the method of scientific analysis. Results. The analysis of statistical, theoretical and practical issues of criminal justice regulating the appointment and enforcement of criminal penalties in the form of a fine allowed us to focus on solving problems both in the field of criminal and penal enforcement law, and in connection with other theoretical sciences regulating the execution of a fine. The materials of the article will be of interest to both scientists and practitioners dealing with the problems of the execution of criminal penalties not related to the isolation of the convict from society. Conclusion. The conclusions formulated in this article will help to improve the efficiency of bailiffs in the execution of fines and form the basis for subsequent research in the field of execution of criminal penalties.