Criminal Policy and State Functions

Criminal law, like positive law in general, is a political category. This axiom predetermines the statist approach to the formulation of criminal legal ideas and forms, and has a decisive influence on criminal legal reality. The influence of etatist ideology on the formation of criminal policy is especially growing in the context of crisis and conflict events, geopolitical tensions, and new challenges to the security of the state and its citizens. The criminal-political component permeates all spheres of state activity. Therefore, the goals, directions and priorities of criminal policy are conceptually subordinated to increasing the effectiveness of the criminal law protection of its functioning. In the critical stages of the life of society, the most important criminal and political task is to ensure the effective functioning of the state, which implies a correct understanding of the priority functions carried out by the state and the correct choice of means of their criminal law protection.