Panorama of criminological reality and its future: on “Modern criminology as a science and academic discipline” by P.A. Kabanov, R.R. Magizov

• Main Author: Gennadiy N. Gorshenkov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tatar Educational Center "TAGLIMAT" Ltd. 2018-03-01
• Series: Aktualʹnye Problemy Èkonomiki i Prava
• Subjects: Ratings and reviews
• Online Access: http://apel.ieml.ru/storage/archive_articles/9845.pdf
• ISSN: 1993-047X; 2410-0390

Objective comprehensive and objective evaluation of a work by P. A. Kabanov and R. R. Magizov ldquoModern criminology as a science and educational disciplinerdquo published in Kazan in 2017. Methods dialectical approach to cognition of social phenomena using general scientific methods of cognition based on it analysis synthesis comparison etc. Results the authorsrsquo concept of modern criminology as a science and educational discipline is analyzed as well as its structure relationships with other sciences main trends in criminology and prospects for its development. Much attention is paid to the unconditional usefulness of the publication first of all for those who study criminal law because as the authors rightly point out modern criminological science is an extremely dynamic and multidimensional branch of knowledge in respect of which a unified approach in understanding its main categories has not yet been developed. In the first chapter of P. A. Kabanov and R. R. Magizovrsquos work the Russian image of criminology as a scientific branch and an educational discipline is presented. The second chapter describes the structure of modern criminology which according to the authors was undergoing changes at the turn of the 1990s in the Russian model theoretical and applied of criminological science. Chapter 3 is devoted to the theory and practice of specificsociological research as a universal method of criminological cognition and a form of teaching criminology. In the fourth chapter the indisputable provisions on interrelations of modern criminology with social and natural sciences are systematized. The fifth chapter discusses trends and promising areas of criminology. The authors present critical estimations of some conventional views on criminology as a science with an ambiguous status that separates it from jurisprudence and accordingly draws it closer to sociology. The views of the reviewer on the status structure object and function of criminology as a general theoretical or normative science are presented. Scientific novelty for the first time an assessment of the reviewed work is given its main advantages and provisions requiring additional scientific study are revealed. Practical significance the work determines the current state of Russian criminology and its prospects for conceptual development.