Problems of Criminalization in the System of Social Control

The article examines the issues of criminalization as a process of establishing by the state the public danger of a certain phenomenon in the life of society, which poses a threat to established social relations and requires criminal legal protection. Representing a complex socio-legal institution, criminalization presupposes the existence for its implementation of following certain principles, based on well-known grounds and constituting the mechanism for criminalization. The originality and peculiarities of this phenomenon in criminal law-making are of considerable interest for theoretical analysis and law enforcement. The purpose of the presented study is to define social control as a historically established system of influence on a person, aimed at organizing its activities within the framework of accepted rules and social values that express public interests. As well as questions of scientific support of the 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 criminal law policy is directly related to the problems of criminalization, which is the method of its implementation. The criminalization of socially dangerous acts is justified only if it provides reliable criminal law protection of public relations. Criminalization also achieves another task of criminal law - regulatory. By establishing prohibitions, criminal law norms thereby regulate people's behavior.