POLITICA PENALĂ A REPUBLICII MOLDOVA PRIVIND PROTECȚIA VALORILOR CULTURALE

. An important role regarding the criminal policy of the state belongs to the criminallaw, together with the contravention law. Or, the defense of society’s most important values, including cultural ones, against reprehensible acts, by which they are harmed or put at risk, is ensured to alarge extent by means of criminal law, a fact enshrined in art. 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republicof Moldova. The contravention law is also in unison: „The purpose of the contraventional law consists in the defense of the legitimate rights and freedoms of the person, the defense of property, publicorder, other values protected by the law, in the settlement of contraventional cases, as well as in theprevention of the commission of new contraventions”. In the era of criminal policy reforms, scientifically substantiated recommendations are required for the improvement of legal-penal norms, as wellas the creation of new criminal legislation. Currently, criminal law must be based on new principlesand, first of all, on the recognition of the priority of general human values over group values, at thesame time over those of political-ideological origins; criminal legislation must be brought into linewith the existing criminological reality and scientifically substantiated; crime prevention and controlmust be categorized as priorities of the contemporary criminal policy of the Republic of Moldova.Key words: criminal policy, criminal policy measures, state strategies and programs on crimeprevention and combat, Criminal Code, Contravention Code, crimes against patrimony, cultural values, crimes on cultural values, misdemeanors on cultural values.