Criminal law and criminal process. Reform project. Prikhodko I.A., Bondarenko A.V., Stolyarenko V.M.

In 2020-2023, a number of monographs were published by the Publishing House of International Relations, dedicated to various aspects of reforming criminal and criminal procedure legislation. In this work, its authors summarize the proposals previously expressed by this score and formulate a number of new ones.

, in their aggregate, the designed interconnected and interdependent amendments to the criminal and criminal procedure codes and a number of other laws are a holistic draft of large-scale reform of the corresponding legislation. The main goals of which in the field of criminal law are the coordination of its norms and institutions with the norms and institutions of civil law, the distinction between civil law relations and criminally punishable acts, the elimination of excessive repression for crimes in the field of economics, and in the field of criminal process-its approximation to the arbitration process , in which, in contrast to the criminal, the prosecution of persons is accountable for the offenses imputed by him without prejudice to the principles of adversarial and equality of the parties, the rights and legitimate interests of persons. involved in the sphere of legal proceedings. In turn, the integration in the framework of the arbitration proceedings of the civilistic and criminal types of process indicates the potential suitability of this legal proceedings for consideration in it also criminal cases. related to the implementation of entrepreneurial and other economic activities, which will allow the jointly economic dispute and the criminal case from it and thereby minimize the risk of adopting opposite judicial acts.

Particular attention is paid to ensuring the principle of the presumption of innocence, to which A number of provisions of the current Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation do not correspond.

The monograph shows draft (federal laws “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”. “On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation”. "" " On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation ”and the draft Federal Constitutional Law“ On Amending Certain Federal Constitutional Laws in connection with a change in the jurisdiction of criminal cases. and design editions of the amended articles of the relevant laws, as well as explanatory notes to these bills, which provide brief justifications of the relevant amendments.

The work is designed for a wide range of readers. It can be used in billing work, as well as as a textbook for teachers and students of law universities.