Suturin Mikhail Alexandrovich Suturin Mikhail Alexandrovich

The paper analyzes the features of criminal liability for minors who have committed crimes. It reflects the changes in the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation regarding this group of criminals during the period of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Attention is paid to the content of punishments that are presented as alternatives to imprisonment. The article examines the statistical indicators of the number of minors convicted of criminal penalties that do not involve restriction or deprivation of liberty for the period 2010–2024. As an intermediate conclusion, the article identifies the prospects for implementing these types of penalties

criminal policy, criminal liability of minors, juvenile convict, criminal punishment, juvenile crime.

Suturin Mikhail Alexandrovich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Baikal State University (11, Lenin st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); East Siberian Branch of the Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev (23a, Ivan Franko st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0001-5152-4566, RSCI Author ID: 506131, e-mail: mialsu@yandex.ru

Suturin M.A. Nakazaniya v otnoshenii nesovershennoletnih v UK RF: realii i perspektivy. Chast' 1 [Punishments against minors in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: realities and prospects. Part 1] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2026, no 1 (112), pp. 85–91. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2026.1.85 (in Russian).

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