Criminalisation and Decriminalisation: Issues and Limits

Student: Belonogova Mariya

Supervisor: Vladimir Shumikhin

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm)

Educational Programme: Jurisprudence (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This work is devoted to the study of the processes of criminalization and decriminalization in the Russian criminal law. Criminalization and decriminalization are the main forms of criminal policy, purposeful activity of the legislator on recognition of acts socially dangerous and their inclusion in the list of crimes in the criminal legislation. The paper discusses in detail the grounds of criminalization and the consequences of criminalization and decriminalization, which are expressed in the state and dynamics of crime and change in social justice. In this paper, the problems and gaps in the activities of the legislator on criminalization are identified and possible solutions are proposed.

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