Necessary prospects of developing the Institute of state and law of the Russian academy of sciences

• Main Author: Viktor Vasilyevich Luneev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tatar Educational Center "TAGLIMAT" Ltd. 2018-06-01
• Series: Aktualʹnye Problemy Èkonomiki i Prava
• Subjects: Institute of State and Law
• Online Access: http://apel.ieml.ru/storage/archive_articles/9857.pdf
• ISSN: 1993-047X; 2410-0390

Objective to consider the defects of sociallegal and criminological research at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and based on their analysis to offer promising areas of scientific legal research for the effective lawmaking. Methods dialectical approach to the cognition of social phenomena enabling to analyze them in their historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors which determined the choice of the following research methods formallogical comparativelegal sociological. Results the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences should specialize in studying the existing trends and patterns of crime forecasting and development of draft normativelegal acts to combat illegal mass activity. However in reality the scientific developments of the abovementioned Institute are not always taken into account in lawmaking and lawenforcement activities. As a result there are no accurate data on the actual level of crime and its particular types the social and economic consequences of crime are not analyzed an effective mechanism of struggle against crime is not developed there are no data on the costs of combating crime and maintaining criminals at confinement institutions no adequate forecast is presented of the possible development of crime due to intensive changes in the world and in the country. Scientific novelty the conducted critical analysis of the history of the establishment and development of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and its interaction with public authorities enabled to justify the need to create a fullfledged analytical center in the abovementioned Institute to obtain systemic information on the legal and criminological situation in the Russian Federation. Practical significance the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific and pedagogical activities in the consideration of issues related to the definition of promising areas of scientific legal research.