Formal and informal criminological regulatory institutions

The criminological legislation is developing in the Russian Federation. Criminological legislation, like any system of legal norms, includes various institutions regulating knowledge of crime, criminogenic determinants and crime prevention. The set of norms related to criminological is represented both by norms which are in certain branches of jurisprudence and certain legislative institutions. The institute of criminological legislation will be a set of legal norms affecting all types of equal social relations related to the field of cognition and prevention of criminality, crimes and offenses. The main tasks of the regulatory institutes of criminological legislation are the generation of the anti-crime potential of society, the implementation of social initiatives in the field of knowledge of crime, its causes and conditions, the identity of the offender, the organization of eliminating or neutralizing criminogenic determinants, assessing the effectiveness of state, regional, municipal preventive activities.