Modern criminal law policy on the defence of justice

The paper considers the issues of modern national policy on crime prevention against justice. It is emphasized that the reform of the legal provisions governing criminal liability for these socially dangerous acts, which has been carried out by bodies of the legislative power in recent years, is insufficient to achieve the objectives of criminal law policy. This is due, in particular, to inaccuracies in the legislative structures of certain articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which reduces the effectiveness of the criminal law protection of public relations in the field of justice. Noting the generally positive trends in criminal law policy in this area, the author concludes that it is necessary to improve the construction of certain corpus delicti. To this end, it is proposed to amend Articles 295 and 296 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to specify as victim persons who have exercised or had the opportunity to exercise their procedural rights and/or obligations in legal proceedings. In addition, an adjustment to Article 316(1) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is justified with a view to establishing criminal liability for harboring of all grave offences without prior promise