Obstruction of justice and preliminary investigation: problems of legislative technique and its impact on theory and law enforcement

Purpose of the study is to obstruction of justice and preliminary investigation through the problems of legislative technique and its impact on theory and law enforcement. Formal legal methods were used. The article obstruction of justice and preliminary investigation reveals the problems of legislative technique and its impact on theory and law enforcement. It is established that the sought-after problems are the correlation of the categories of «obstruction» and «interference», as well as criminalization and unity (unification) of criminal law and criminal procedure terminology. It is concluded that the real or contrived problem of legislative technique associated with the formulation of the provisions of Article 294 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in any case, becomes the subject of theoretical discussion and law enforcement problem. The article has scientific value, representing a comprehensive analysis of obstruction of justice and preliminary investigation as a crime through the problems of legislative technology and its impact on theory and law enforcement.