Garbatovich Denis Aleksandrovich,

associated professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Science, and Criminal and Penal Law of the South Ural State University, associated professor of the Department of Criminal Lawof the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Justice, dean of the faculty of legal science of the Chelyabinsk branch of the University of the Russian Academy of Education, Cand. Sc. Law, associated professor. 454128, г. Chelyabinsk, Bratiev Kashyrinykh Str., building 114, flat 102. E-mail: garbatovich@mail.ru

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The article analyzes trends in penal policy in the course of sentence imposition depending on the category of crime. Depending on the applicability of a form of criminal punishment and the frequency of use of lenient or strict punishment it is decided on either mitigation or reinforcement of the criminal repression by the law enforcer for the commission of criminal acts. By analyzing the ratio of applicability of different types of criminal penalties the author was able evaluate the real effectiveness of a particular form of criminal punishment, the actual realization of the punitive potential pledged in it, variability of judicial practice in criminal sentence imposition, and the implementation of the principle of individualization of criminal punishment.

criminal policy, sentence imposition, the effectiveness of criminal punishment.