Public danger and criminalization in the system of security measures

Abstract

Subject of research: the article deals with the issue of the essence of public danger and its significance in the process of criminalization of public relations. The vectors of criminalization development are outlined.
 Purpose of research: to determine the criteria for criminalization of public relations in the system of measures of criminal legal influence in the structure of criminal law and the prospects for their further improvement.
 Methods and objects of research: the study used traditional methods of socio-legal and formal dogmatic analysis: documentary, historical and legal, analytical, systematic, logical.
 Main results of research: according to the results of the study, the author states that the criminal law of the classical type is being replaced by the criminal law of the utilitarian type, where the concept of crime is associated with causing harm, and public danger plays an auxiliary function. In the system of security measures, the public danger of an act does not form a criminal law prohibition. Criminalization is based on the element of expediency. The transformation of the subject and method of criminal law leads to the fact that the idea of security, which currently dominates the criminalization of public relations, determines the construction of preventive criminal law.