Optimal Criminal Policy

The paper is devoted to the analysis of domestic criminal policy, its effectiveness and the possibility of optimization. The state of criminal law and the criminal legal reality based thereon raises doubts about the very existence of criminal policy as a targeted activity of the state in the sphere of combating crime. The properties of criminal repression, which do not eliminate the determinants of crime, but often exacerbate them, require a deep legal and philosophical understanding of their true essence and purpose. The traditional approach to the harshness of criminal policy as a method of law enforcement is subject to qualitative revision at the theoretical level, in legislation and law enforcement. The formation of criminal policy and its further optimization require the modernization of criminal, criminal procedure, criminal executive law, as well as practical law enforcement activities. The main direction of this reform is the rationalization and humanization of the indicated directions, corresponding to the global vector of historical development of society, which has proven its effectiveness.