General provision
SECTION II
CRIME
CHAPTER 3
CONCEPT OF THE CRIME AND CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMES
Article 18. Relapse of crimes and its kinds
18.1. Relapse of crimes shall be deliberate committing of crime by the person, who has been convicted before for earlier deliberate committed of crime.
18.2. Relapse of crimes shall be admitted as dangerous :
18.2.1. at committing of a deliberate crime by the person for which he is condemned to imprisonment if earlier this person was condemned to imprisonment for a deliberate crime twice ;
18.2.2. at committing of deliberate serious crime by the person, if earlier he was condemned for deliberate serious crime.
18.3. Relapse of crimes shall be admitted as especially serious :
18.3.1. at committing of a deliberate crime by the person for which he is condemned to imprisonment not less than three times, irrespective of a sequence, and for deliberate less serious crime or deliberate serious crime ;
18.3.2. at committing of deliberate serious crime by the person, if earlier he was condemned to imprisonment two times for committing of deliberate serious crime or once for committing especially serious crime ;
18.3.3. at committing serious crime by the person, if earlier he was condemned to imprisonment for committing deliberate minor serious or serious crimes.
18.4. The convictions, removed or extinguished in the order, provided by article 83 of the present Code, and also a previous conviction for the crimes, committed by the person at the 18, shall not be taken into account at recognition as relapse of crimes.
18.5. Relapse of crimes attracts more strict punishment on the grounds and on the limits, which are provided by the present Code.
Recidivism of criminal offences
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