Taking into account liberalization of public criminal and criminal procedure policies that has emerged in recent years the author analyzes the ways in which this tendency has affected actual indicators of the courts’ and preliminary investigation bodies’ activities. The explanation is provided that improvement of grounds for dismissal of a criminal case and criminal prosecution should have led to an increase of cases dismissed. First of all it concerns criminal cases on minor or moderately serious offences, in which under certain conditions it is possible to decide on dismissal of the criminal case or criminal prosecution due to a number of non-rehabilitating grounds (arts. 25, 25.1, 28, 28.1, 427, 432 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation). However analysis of statistical data has made it possible to reveal general patterns for broadening «the criminal base» to apply a number of grounds for dismissal of criminal cases and criminal prosecution. The author comes to the conclusion that preliminary investigation bodies and courts have reduced the number of cases dismissed what clearly contradicts the tendency for liberalizing criminal and criminal procedure policies. The author proposes a system of measures to overcome this negative tendency in law enforcement activities of the Russian state.
dismissal of a criminal case and criminal prosecution, updating the grounds for dismissal of criminal cases, non-rehabilitating grounds, rehabilitating grounds, liberalization of criminal policy
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