Legislative Textology of Criminal Law

Review. A legislative-textual approach to criminal law in contrast to the traditional linguistic approach is based on the understanding that the final result of legislative activity is the text of the criminal law. Legislative textology has two practical applications: construction of criminal-law provisions and interpretation of texts of the criminal law. The first practical application of the legislative texts allows us to identify the textual indications of criminal law, to determine the dynamics of amendments to the articles of the General and Special Part of the RF CC, to analyze the structural organization of the text of the criminal law, to identify the minimum, optimum texts of the articles and articles that excess the scope, to differentiate criminal law regulations in accordance with their compositional and graphics features and provide practical recommendations on improvement of articles of the RF CC, to consider the problem of the criminal law quality in relation to its addressees, to set the textual peculiarities of the titles of the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, to develop practical recommendations for the application legislative textology provisions when constructing notes, to reveal new crimes constructions with limiting (restrictive) elements. Legislative and textology interpretation as a the second approach to the practical application of the legislative textology makes it possible to carry out an analysis of the text of the criminal law, including its structural, constructive and conceptual peculiarities, and to develop legislative and textual interpretation algorithm that provides a step-by-step interpretation of the text of the criminal law. Methodological foundations of legislative textology consist of both traditional methods of cognition (method of historical reflection, comparative law, logical, sociological, statistical, the method of expert assessments) and new approaches to the study of the text of the criminal law (discursive, textocentric, communicative methods and the method of structural analysis)

legislative textology, legislative textual constructing, textual indications of criminal law, models of criminal law regulations, requirements, classification of the titles of the Criminal Code Articles, classification of crimes on the basis of a criminalizing feature of an objective element, classification of commentaries, algorithm of legislative and textual interpretation

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