Russian legislation of criminal and legal complex: modern condition and ways of development

Introduction: the article considers the problems of the current state and proposals for improving the Russian criminal law in the fight against crime. Based on statistical data on the state of crime and judicial and legal statistics on the results of court trials of criminal cases on certain types of corruption crimes, the results of a study of the aforementioned problem by other Russian scientists, it is shown that the problems under consideration cause both scientific and applied interests. The publication considers the reasons and conditions for a significant decrease in the effectiveness of the activities of law enforcement and judicial bodies in the implementation of the purpose of criminal proceedings over the past two decades. Materials and Methods: the normative basis of the research is formed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, criminal and criminal procedural legislation, regulatory legal acts regulating the results of the activities of law enforcement bodies and the court, as well as previously conducted research by experts in the field of criminal law and criminology, criminal procedure. The methodological basis of the study was the general dialectic method of scientific knowledge, which is universal in nature, as well as methods of logical deduction, induction, cognitive methods and techniques of observation, comparison, analysis, generalization and description. Results of the Study: allowed to clarify and generalize certain provisions regarding the effectiveness of criminal law in the fight against crime and its individual types, as well as judicial discretion in sentencing certain types of corruption crimes. Findings and Conclusions: the analyzed materials, the statistical data on the state of crime in the Russian Federation, the opinions of scientists in the field of criminal law issues allow the author to argue about the real, rather than mythical, need to improve legislation and predict the effectiveness of the proposed legal and organizational measures to create criminal - a legal and criminal procedure mechanism for increasing the effectiveness of law enforcement and judicial bodies in overcoming the often negative assessment of their activities by both citizens and the state, and in the whole of Russian society.