The Constitutional System as an Object of Criminal Law Protection
In the article, based on doctrinal approaches to the definition of criminal law protection, the analysis of modern trends in the formation and implementation of tasks of criminal legislation in the field of protection of the constitutional system is carried out. The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical provisions on the constitutional system as an object of criminal law protection within the framework of the mechanism for improving criminal legislation in the field of protection of universally recognized public values from criminal encroachments. In realizing this goal, special attention is paid to determining the content of the task of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation related to the criminal protection of the constitutional system in the context of constitutional norms on the restriction of human and civil rights and freedoms, the consolidation of this category as an object of protection, the establishment of criminal liability for socially dangerous encroachments on the constitutional system. The dialectical method of cognition, general scientific methods of abstraction, analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, as well as special legal methods are defined as the methodological basis of the study: comparative legal, logical-legal, etc. The article argues the conclusion that the constitutional system as an object of criminal law protection is a set of public relations mediating the form (method) of the organization of the state, including interaction with civil society, which ensures subordination to law and characterizes the state as constitutional.