Problem issues of the system of bases and principles of criminalization

The article examines the issues of the system of foundations and principles of criminalization as a process of the state establishing the public danger of a certain phenomenon in the life of society, posing a threat to established social relations and requiring criminal legal protection. Representing a complex socio-legal institution, criminalization presupposes the existence of adherence to certain principles for its implementation, which are based on known grounds and constitute the mechanism for implementing criminalization. The originality and features of this phenomenon in criminal law-making are of considerable interest for theoretical analysis and law enforcement activities. The purpose of the presented research is to determine the system of foundations and principles of criminalization as a historically established system of influence on the individual, aimed at organizing his activities within the framework of accepted rules and social values that express public interests. As well as issues of scientific support of phenomena occurring in criminal rule-making, their connection with the criminal policy of the Russian Federation. Based on the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the study of society’s ideas about crime is extremely necessary to justify the criminal law prohibition of a specific act from the point of view of taking into account the level of public legal awareness and psychology in order to avoid a conflict of criminal law and objective social norms.