КYRGYZ REPUBLIC’S CRIMINAL LEGISLATION REFORM: CHOOSING A NEW ONE OR RETURNING TO THE OLD ONE
Keywords:
criminal law reform, criminal policy, crime, principles of criminal law, criminality, criminal punish-ment, administrative justice, criminal code.Abstract
The article examines the current problems of the criminal law reform carried out in Kyrgyzstan. The author notes that in the absence of a unified state criminal policy, regular reform of the Criminal Code leads to legal chaos and unfair law enforcement. Thus, the reform of the Criminal Code in 2021 became an example of unjustified replacements and rejections of the introduced new institutions. There is a steady tendency to return to the old criminal legislation. At the same time, the principles of criminal law enshrined in the Criminal Code remained only a declaration and were not reflected in a number of norms of the Special Part of the Criminal Code. The author comes to the conclusion that any reform should be based on a unified criminal policy adopted in the state, otherwise, in the absence of its strategic vision, it is impossible to build legislation aimed at preventing crimes.
