The realization of criminal politics: from law making to law enforcement

The realization of criminal politics must be done on the basis of the criminal principles system, that is, the conceptual ideas in the field of combating crime, which expresses this very politics. However, in present-day Russia there frequently occur cases of their distortion either at the stage of law-making or at the stage of law-employment. Combined cases are encountered as well. On the basis of the analysis of legislative regulation of the institute of necessary defence and the norm of liberating from penal responsibility due to reconciliation with the victim, the practice of their use and law explanatory practice of the Russian Federation Supreme Court the author targets the negative consequences of the penal political ideas distortions. The basic ones of the latter are the violations of the constitutional legal guarantees of person and lessening effectivity of crime combating.