VISUAL SEMIOTICS AND MODERN PENAL LAW: PROBLEM STATEMENT
Despite the intensive development of specific semiotic fields, the visual aspects of penal law communication, so far, have never been the subject of a comprehensive study by scholars in the field of philosophy and law, but have only been considered in the context of solving existing problems of law enforcement practice through hermeneutics. Considering the broad approach of communication process understanding, the author concludes that the problems of visual semiotics in the context of penal law should be solved through its creation, understanding and implementation. On the basis of the analysis of the problems (more than 400) of the penal law application received by the author from 49 territorial bodies of the penal system, it is concluded that the existing problems of the law text understanding are caused not only by the complexity of the communicative relations which are expressed in it, but also by the specific character of the interpreter. The first problem is the legislator's use of legal terms that are unclear to the addressee, the use of abstract and evaluation notions, words with moral and ethical character, as well as words borrowed from foreign sources, the second is the addressee's lack of Russian language skills or low level of education.