SOME THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF THE SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL PENALTIES
Taking into account the analysis of the current legislation, foreign experience, judicial statistics and law enforcement practice, the existing system of criminal penalties of the Russian Federation is considered in the article. Certain problems are identified: the non-application of certain punishments; violation of the principle of building a system of punishments from less severe to more severe; extremely uneven appointment of the punishments under consideration by the courts. Based on the analysis, some ideas are proposed regarding the prospects for the development of the criminal punishment system: changing the structure of punishments; combining a number of punishments with changing names, and a number of others. In addition, some directions for improving judicial activity in the appointment of criminal penalties are proposed.