Galuzin, A.F. The principle of “legal security” and the system of criminal law, criminal procedure and legislation on investigation of the Russian Federation.

Abstract: Implementation of the legal security principle calls for a new approach to improvement of criminal law, criminal procedural law, and legislation on investigation activity, as well as to their application for the purpose of fighting crime. Prosecuting and investigating practice should be set so that it would meet its principal goals: not to allow for groundless legal proceedings, to protect not guilty ones from punishment and to ensure punishment of those guilty of crimes. Otherwise, a mistake in a particular criminal case may in the end cause harm to the legal security of a state, so even more caution and attention is needed in each case…