ROLE OF CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN IMPROVING CRIMINAL LAW
The paper shows the role of criminological research for developing the concept of counteracting crime in general and specific types (sub-types) of crimes in particular in order to determine the developmental state of society and of the country's criminal system as well as existing internal and external threats. The overall concept of counteracting crime should be developed from particular to general. To achieve this it is necessary to determine the specifics of certain groups of crimes, e.g., economic crimes, crimes of corruption, organized crime and others, study the value for contemporary society, the actual developmental state of certain positive protected relationships and the destructive activity encroaching upon them, its danger for society, the damage inflicted upon the object. It is necessary to use the content and structure of activity category to determine the types of protected and criminal activities as well as to include them in the constituent elements of crime. The author shows the role of criminological research in pointed or adjustment criminalization or de-criminalization of actions. The deviantological data on how common or typical a certain phenomenon is and on its actual or potential damage to the existing social relations should signal the possibility of criminalizing it. The issue of de-criminalizing activities should be based not only on the registered crime data and amount of damages inflicted on a person, society or state, but also on unsolved and latent crimes' indices; the actual amount of damages inflicted on the protected object. Criminological research is also necessary for objective evaluation of ideology, culture and competence level of a modern law-maker and law-enforcer with the aim of adjusting contemporary legal training policy.