Keyword: «criminal responsibility»

The importance of the use of compulsory educational measures to juvenile offenders due to the fact that the involvement of criminal responsibility is not only necessary to correct them, but also can harm their moral development. This is due to the fact that a criminal record is a consequence of engaging a minor to criminal prosecution and punishment applied to him, it leads to stigmatization of teen and makes it difficult to re-socialization and involvement penitentiary often leads to absorption of minor rules of the criminal subculture.

The article examines the criteria for distinguishing administrative and criminal liability for the dissemination of false socially significant information based on the analysis of judicial practice, analyzes the conceptual apparatus specified in Parts 9 and 10 of Articles 13.15 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation and Articles 207.1, 207.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to study the correlation of such concepts as «false» and «unreliable information».