Criminal Law as the Most Effective Tool for Influencing Crime and Criminals

Talgat Kurmanovich Akimzhanov

2021

Abstract

The article reveals the role of criminal law as the most effective and important tool for combating crime and influencing the personality of an offender. The author used statistical data of the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Accounts of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan for a period of 2015-2020, the results of the analysis of the Criminal Codes of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1959, 1997 and 2014, as well as empirical information obtained during the analyses conducted in 2018-2020 by the Research Institute of Law of Turan University. The purpose of the study was to substantiate the conclusion about criminal law as an important and effective tool for influencing criminality and criminals, as well as to develop proposals and recommendations for improving measures of criminal law to increase the effectiveness of criminal penalties by reducing their negative social consequences. The objectives of the study were the desire to prove the importance of criminal law in combating crime; to reveal the content of the punishment, its correlation with the criminal policy pursued in the country; identifying problems in law enforcement practice in the imposition and execution of sentences and making proposals for improving the criminal legislation in terms of ensuring its positive impact on criminality and criminals.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Akimzhanov T. (2021). Criminal Law as the Most Effective Tool for Influencing Crime and Criminals. In Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA, ISBN 978-989-758-532-6, pages 274-277. DOI: 10.5220/0010635200003152

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closa21,
author={Talgat Kurmanovich Akimzhanov},
title={Criminal Law as the Most Effective Tool for Influencing Crime and Criminals},
booktitle={Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,},
year={2021},
pages={274-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010635200003152},
isbn={978-989-758-532-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,
TI - Criminal Law as the Most Effective Tool for Influencing Crime and Criminals
SN - 978-989-758-532-6
AU - Akimzhanov T.
PY - 2021
SP - 274
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0010635200003152