Modernization of criminal policy: problems and prospects (Russian and foreign experience)

The paper presents a comparative and legal analysis of one of the most disputable issues of the legal practice, that of reforming criminal policy in the context of modernization and post- modernization transformations of the state and legal reality. Modernization processes in the field of law are fundamental to the contemporary society as they laid its foundations. In this paper, the concept of legal modernization is applied to criminal policy.