The course of lectures corresponds to the program of the course "Criminal Law", which takes into account the latest changes in legislation, as well as the practice of applying the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The authors tried to avoid analyzing the legislation of other industry affiliations and highlighting the controversial problems of criminal law , Minimize the use of case law , without reference to Chapter 28, 33 and 34 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and some norms of other chapters of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation , It is not very common in the case law.. Lectures are focused on the use, first of all, by students of secondary law schools, non-law universities and students of higher law schools studying in correspondence form .