Sipok, R.P. Topical issues of effi ciency of criminal law norms.

Abstract: The goal of this article is to show the key problems of application of criminal law, which has a number of gaps and shortcomings, which in turn negatively infl uence its effi ciency in the sphere of lowering the level of crime in the modern society. The object of this article is the relations of the government and the state in the sphere of compliance to the legal norms, as well as the guarantees of state security and legal order. The key value of this article is that it lays the grounds for the introduction of preliminary legal expertise of legislative drafts into the Russian practice. He considers that the effi ciency of law much depends on its preliminary evaluation, and then he offers to include the institution of legal expertise of laws as an obligatory element of legislative process. The author also offers to introduce the practice of planning and forecasting to the existing Russian legislation. The main conclusion of this article is that the scientifi c analysis of legal problems regarding stability of legislative acts should have considerable priority in the Russian legal science.

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