Modernization of Criminal Legislation in the Context of Criminalization of Responsibility for Social and Domestic Violence

The present study is devoted to the lack of proper legal regulation in the Russian criminal law of responsibility for violence in family relationships. The amendments and additions made in 2016–2017 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation regarding responsibility for inflicting beatings or other violent acts that caused physical pain, but did not entail the consequences specified in Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in particular, the decriminalization of beatings against loved ones, are currently questionable and a number of questions. The article analyzes the proposals of researchers on the problem of domestic violence, as well as their own conclusions on the issue of legal regulation of domestic violence. The authors recommended criminalizing domestic violence as a separate crime.