The Three-Pronged Law-Conforming Approach as the Basis of Criminal Law Enforcement

Modern criminal law science faces the acute problem of finding a new approach to scientific and methodological support for the effectiveness of criminal policy. The urgency of this problem is due to a number of circumstances. On the one hand, there are growing shortcomings in criminal legislation, including excessive and duplicative criminalization, imbalance in sanctions, over-dynamism and haphazard changes, shortcomings in legislative technology, intra- and inter-branch inconsistencies, excessive politicization and the active use of criminal law tools in solving current social problems. On the other hand, scholarly criticism and proposals for improving criminal legislation are often characterized by a speculative and formal-legal approach. Given the prevalence of law-making defects, there is a need to develop and adopt a concept of criminal law policy, but this does not fundamentally solve the problem of the quality of the criminal law itself. In our opinion, its meaningful solution lies in a three-pronged law-conforming approach that is new to science and practice, including a lawconforming legal understanding of criminal law, a law-conforming concept and implementation of criminal law policy, and a law-conforming criminal code that will ensure their consistency, interdependence, and effectiveness. This approach holds significance not only within the criminal law field but also has interdisciplinary and general theoretical value, serving as a foundation for law-conforming legal understanding and law-conforming legal policy (the concept of «law as law-conformity»).

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