THE SYSTEM OF MEASURES OF CRIMINAL-LAW INFLUENCE: ESSENCE AND CONTENT
сriminal penalties and other measures of penal liability provided by criminal law form a system of criminal law measures, which are generally referred to the range of measures aimed to protect individuals, society and the state from criminal manifestations by means of criminal law. The usage of the term «criminal law measures» is often challenged in the legal literature that due to its significance it does not display all the specific designated methods. Indeed, the literal interpretation of the term «criminal law measures» can be attributed to the measures which are originally not equivalen tI.n this regard, in the scientific world it is recommended to replace the term by more appropriate terminology combination of «criminal law influence». Criminologists and penitentiary scientists assign primary part for criminal punishment system in the system of measures of criminal law influence, which pertains the certain content, consisting of 13 types of criminal penalties distinguished by qualitative and quantitative indicators. The analysis of the legal literature and statistical data testifies to the priority of criminal penalties in the system of measures of criminal law. Сriminal penalties do not have just permanent connection with other criminal law measures, but also compete with them. It should be noted that the science is not formed a unified approach to the definition of a list of criminal-law measures relating to the system of measures of criminal law influence, however, the general features of its development can be traced. Thus the actual list of other measures of criminal law is much broader than the formal, which is presented in Section 6 of theс riminal сode of the Russian Federation.