1.
The main idea of the discussion supported by all participants was the
following: punitive, repressive nature of criminal policy must be replaced by the
restoring one. Efficient criminal policy is restoration of violated rights of victims
of crimes and abuse of power, restoration of social and moral features of the population
(in particular, decriminalization), strengthening law order. The later requires, first of
all, restoration of public trust to law enforcement and judicial bodies.
2.
Recreational criminal policy implies not only minimum of repression,
but also limiting the sphere of activity of the criminal justice through decriminalization
of a considerable part of offenses and creating institutions alternative to the criminal
justice.
The suggested approach has different objects and priorities in criminal justice.
Population (the task of decriminalization and safety), victims of crimes, victims and
potential victims of power abuse, potential criminal social groups (in particular, risk
groups) and only after them - criminals as such become main objects in the sphere of
criminal policy. To some extent, subjects of criminal policy, structures carrying out
criminal policy and influencing it become objects of criminal policy. Actually, not only
reform of the criminal justice system, but strengthening law order cannot be accomplished
without changing the nature of activity of law enforcement bodies, courts and regional
bodies of authority. But goals which we can set for bodies of criminal justice will remain
mere declarations without changes in technologies of administration.
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