The genesis of responsibility for hooligan actions

Subject of research: the norms of Russian criminal law on responsibility for actions committed out of hooligan motives, the practice of their application, as well as the views of researchers on the issue under consideration. Purpose of research: is to formulate scientifically based conclusions about the prerequisites for criminalizing hooliganism as an independent crime. Research methods: the methodological basis consists of the dialectical method of scientific cognition and the methods of formal logic, as well as some private scientific methods used in the humanities. Thus, the historical and legal method was used to consider the evolution of criminal liability for hooliganism, and the comparative legal method was used to compare approaches to the qualification of hooliganism in different historical periods. Object of research: public relations in the field of countering crimes committed for hooligan motives. Research findings: throughout the history of criminal law, the hooligan motive has been considered as an aggravating circumstance for many crimes. The criminalization of hooliganism as an independent crime is determined not by a gap in criminal legislation, but by the state's need for an effective tool to curb public forms of expression of social protest.