Criminal Law

Criminal law is an independent fundamental legal branch and also an integral part of legal system of the State. It enters the complex of branches of the criminal cycle alongside criminal-procedural law and criminal-executive law. Basic provisions of criminal policy of the State are fixed in its institutes and norms.In all higher educational institutions of juridical profile criminal law is among the major educational disciplines. Its purpose consists in giving to learners the necessary information on that, for what it is necessary to punish the person who has committed any deed. In other words, it is on cognition of one of the important activities of law-enforcement bodies, its limits and order.As an educational discipline (subject of cognition) criminal law aims at training professional lawyers, whose main function is a reasonable and well-timed enforcement, without which combating against crimes loses its dynamism.The course of criminal law has three main purposes:general educational; jurisprudential; General educational value of this subject is associated with the need of improving the overall culture of students - future lawyers. Jurisprudential purpose of the course consists in deepening the theoretical knowledge about concept, methods, systems, tasks and principles of criminal law; criminal statute; concept and types of crimes; corpus delicti and its elements; criminal responsibility; stages of committing a crime; ?omplicity in a crime; multiplicity of crimes and its forms; circumstances excluding the criminality of a deed; purposes and types of punishments; imposition of punishment; release from criminal responsibility and punishment; criminal responsibility of juveniles and other measures of penal nature. Practical role of the course related to the study of institutes and methods of penal regulation, their positive and negative aspects, which may vary in different conditions: positive features may have negative consequences, and vice versa. Knowledge of