Необходимые перспективы развития Института государства и права Российской академии наук

Abstract

Objective: to consider the defects of social-legal and criminological research at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and, based on their analysis, to offer promising areas of scientific legal research for the effective lawmaking.Methods: dialectical approach to the cognition of social phenomena, enabling to analyze them in their historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors, which determined the choice of the following research methods: formal-logical, comparative-legal, sociological.Results: the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences should specialize in studying the existing trends and patterns of crime, forecasting and development of draft normative-legal acts to combat illegal mass activity. However, in reality, the scientific developments of the above-mentioned Institute are not always taken into account in law-making and law-enforcement activities. As a result, there are no accurate data on the actual level of crime and its particular types; the social and economic consequences of crime are not analyzed; an effective mechanism of struggle against crime is not developed; there are no data on the costs of combating crime and maintaining criminals at confinement institutions; no adequate forecast is presented of the possible development of crime due to intensive changes in the world and in the country. Scientific novelty: the conducted critical analysis of the history of the establishment and development of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and its interaction with public authorities enabled to justify the need to create a full-fledged analytical center in the above-mentioned Institute to obtain systemic information on the legal and criminological situation in the Russian Federation.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific and pedagogical activities in the consideration of issues related to the definition of promising areas of scientific legal research.