LEGAL DEFINITION OF THE NOTION OF CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT
In article the author through consideration of the lawful purposes, substantial elements of the structure of criminal punishment reveals essential signs for the true scholarly definition of this important legal phenomenon, the kind and sizes of which result from concept of a corresponding kind and elements of the structure of a crime, as well as suggests to enter into the operating Criminal code of the Russian Federation the scholarly definition of the notion of criminal punishment for the purpose of legislative and judicial specification of some kinds and sizes of criminal punishments and for the considerable improvement of the Russian law enforcement practice in the sphere of expedient appointment and an appropriate order of useful serving of criminal punishments.