PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF JUVENILE CRIMINAL LAW IN CONTEXT DISCUSSION ABOUT JUVENILE JUSTICE

Abstract

In the article are considered problems of Russian juvenile criminal law in the context of discussions about juvenile justice and juvenile law. The isolation and isolation of juvenile criminal law into a separate legal institution is the result of a specialization of legal norms, which reflects the specifics of a minor age. The author identifies and comments on one of the patterns of development of juvenile criminal law: a reduction in the use of criminal punishment and an increase in the use of alternative сriminal exposure measuresto punishment. In his opinion, the most perspective type of criminal exposure measuresregardingminors should be coercive measures of educational influence (CMEI). Noting factors that hinder the increase in the frequency of their use, the author formulates a number of proposals that can contribute to this: a new interpretation of the legal nature of the CMEI, changing their list, improving the procedure for appointing and creating the infrastructure of executionof actual educational activities.