Decriminalization of crimes in the field of entrepreneurship

The article examines current issues of protection of the rights and legitimate interests of subjects of entrepreneurial activity. The following directions of improvement of criminal procedural and criminal law legislation are analyzed: decriminalization of some “entrepreneurial” articles of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation; gradual abandonment of excessive criminal law regulation in business; wider use of compensatory measures of punishment (compensation, fines) and alternative to punishment of criminal law measures (mediation, transaction). The article considers statistics on the types of crimes that are most often applied to entrepreneurs. In addition, the main directions of long-term state policy in the field of entrepreneurship, which are being implemented to date, are considered. The influence that the administrative environment represented by public authorities and local government has on entrepreneurship has been analyzed. Trends in the field of criminal law risks and their impact are analyzed.