Monograph . — SPb. : Publishing house of the St. Petersburg Law Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, 2002. — 148 c. This monographic study is devoted to the problems of qualification of murders committed by a group of persons, a group of persons by prior conspiracy, organized by a group (including a gang), by members of a criminal community as an association of organized groups. The author makes reasoned proposals for improving the criminal law providing for liability for crimes of the type in question. It is intended for specialists in the field of criminal law.