ON THE CRIMINAL LAW CONCEPT "SOCIAL GROUP"
The paper is devoted to analyzing the concept of a «social group» introduced in criminal legislation in 2007. It states that this concept is far from being univocal because concepts borrowed from other fields of knowledge can be interpreted in various ways. The analysis of this concept's definitions allowed to conclude that it is necessary to outline its constitutive features and either introduce the concept of a «social group» in the criminal legislation or define it in the interpretative act of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.