State of the Contemporary Criminal Law Policy of Russia
Abstract
This paper covers on the contemporary state of the criminal law policy of the Russian Federation. The authorsstate that the criminal law policy is a component of the governmental criminal law policy along with criminal
procedures, penal, criminal investigation policies. The analysis of the contemporary state of crime and the current
criminal law evidences insufficiently high level of the efficiency of the criminal law policy of the Russian
Federation at the present stage. This paper covers on problematic issues arising in connection with continuous
restructuring of the criminal law. The authors come to a conclusion that protection of human values in
differentiation of criminal liability and finding reasonable balance between strict liability for grave offences and
lenient punishment for small and medium gravity crimes should become a priority of the criminal law policy of
Russia. The authors conclude on the need for development and approval of scientific criminology-based concept
of Russia’s criminal law policy reflecting the state of the contemporary society.
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