ON THE ISSUE OF SOME PROBLEMS OF PUNISHMENT FOR COMMITTING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES

The relevance of this work is determined by the fact that that it addresses the problem of punishment for environmental crimes, which provide for criminal liability for the predatory destruction of flora and fauna, depletion of natural resources. We establish that the humanization of criminal liability, carried out in previous years, negatively affects the deterioration of the environmental situation, therefore, the legislator in 2018 and 2019 took certain measures to supplement and change certain  provisions of Chapter 26 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. We analyze the possibility of increasing the role of current domestic criminal law provisions designed to solve the problems of protecting the environment from illegal human actions. We note that the implementation of the most effective modern criminal law policy of the state in the analyzed relations requires the solution of such problems as the inclusion in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of new clauses on responsibility for socially dangerous human behavior in the field of ecology, a significant increase in sanctions if the clause for an environmental crime already exists, the transfer of some environmental crimes from a less serious category to a more serious category, and others.