Criminal Law at a Time of Change

The book examines the main problems of criminal law of post-Soviet states through the prism of global institutional transformations in politics and economy, development of new information relations and stagnation of society. The main features and ways of impact of criminal law on social relations are revealed, where criminal law is given a new global function – ensuring security. For this reason, attention is focused on the essence of crime and criminal law impact.

Modern mechanisms of instrumentalisation of criminal law are shown by means of changing the philosophical bases of legal research, projecting science on global problems of implementation of unified standards, expanding the boundaries of criminal law, shifting the emphasis from the institution of punishment to measures of criminal-legal impact, moving away from material constructions in the concept of “crime” and developing its formal attributes with the prospect of introducing the institution of criminal law into national legislation.