The article considers the decriminalization of criminal offenses in the context of criminal law policy from the position of current legislation and doctrinal principles. The study used general and private-scientific research methods, analysis, synthesis, formal-legal, logical-semantic, and comparative-legal methods. It is noted that criminal policy is a part of social policy that definesthe tasks facing criminal law. One of the ways to implement criminal policy is decriminalization in the form of exclusion of acts as criminally illegal. The content of decriminalization of criminal offenses as an independent method of criminal policy isdetermined by the needs and patterns of social development. The legislator consciously applies a set of rules and methods based on the need to implement the grounds for the loss of criminal law’s ability to protect public relations, taking intoaccount changes in the nature of public relations, which were previously protected by criminal law. It is stated that the factors of decriminalization are the loss of public danger of the act and the possibility of recognizing it as legal; the partial loss of publicdanger of the act, which makes it possible to refuse criminal liability and apply measures provided by other branches of law; the complete absence of public danger due to errors of criminalization. The conditions of decriminalization are characterizedas systems of phenomena, the presence of which determines the absence or reduction of public danger, which are the consequences of the abolition of criminal liability for the act. In contrast to factors, the conditions of decriminalization are the dynamic category and are determined by the situation in society: socio-economic conditions; criminological and legal conditions; socio-psychological conditions.It is noted that decriminalization can be influenced by several conditions that complete each other in some way, but each of which alone cannot lead to decriminalization.