Legislative innovations and positive aspects of the adoption of the Code of the Kyrgyz Republic on Offences

The article analyzes legislative innovations in the framework of reforming the judicial system of the Kyrgyz Republic, which was among the first in the post-Soviet space to adopt a separate Code of Misconduct, which determined the course on humanization of justice, optimization of criminal responsibility, decriminalization of acts. The author also reviewed reforms in the criminal law field, in particular, the introduction of the institute of probation and refusal of the institute of conviction, new conceptual approaches to the qualification of punishment for offenses based on a comparative analysis of the legislation on misconduct in the CIS countries. The object of the study is the process of introducing into the legislation the category of misconduct, the distinction between criminal offenses and misconduct. The subject of the research is the main novelties in the field of criminal legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, related primarily to the adoption of the Code of Misconduct. In the study of the problem, universal and private scientific methods of cognition were used: analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, historical-legal and comparative. The author makes a number of suggestions for improving and resolving possible problems in law enforcement practice on offenses, which will later become the subject of detailed scientific research by legal scholars from near and far abroad.