Legalization of criminal law prohibitions as a vector of modern criminal law policy

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the directions of modern criminal law policy from the standpoint of the theory of criminal law prohibitions. The author of the article considers criminalization as a process and result of the formation of a criminal law prohibition in the criminal law. Using the example of Article 2007 of the Criminal Code of Russian Federation, the application of criminalization criteria in the legislative process is investigated. Special attention is paid to the issue of the concept of criminal law, its connection with the process of legalization of criminal law prohibitions. The position is substantiated that the increase in the number of criminal law prohibitions does not have positive socially significant consequences. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the use of the criminal law resource should correspond to the modern picture of the social world, as well as correspond to basic human values, the main of which is justice. Otherwise, the tasks assigned to the criminal law will not be solved.