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Authors |
Kozachenko Elizabeth B.
Cand. Sc. Law,
Associate Professor of Criminal Law, Ural State Law
University, member of the Sverdlovsk regional court,
21, str. Komsomolskaya, Ykaterinburg, Russia,
620137. E-mail: uglaw@yandex.ru
Kozachenko Ivan Yakovlevich
Doctor of Law, Honored Worker of
Science, Professor of Criminal Law, Ural State Law
University, 21, str. Komsomolskaya, Ykaterinburg,
Russia, 620137. E-mail: uglaw@yandex.ru |
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Abstract |
The authors make an attempt to look at the criminal
law as an ongoing (and therefore stable) and at the
same time constantly changing (i.e. discrete)
process. This approach to criminal law allowed the
authors to consider not only the main trend of the
evolutionary development of law, allocate the main
stages of this evolution, but also to “feel” the
social pulse of the growing dynamics of evolutionary
changes of the criminal law in general. The movement
toward this goal allowed the authors to identify the
most significant facets of criminal law. The
achievement of the set goal is extremely important
for us, since the movement of concepts of criminal
law in space and time “highlights” the features, the
roles and the facets, which in a static state are
usually in the shade. Among relatively independent
facets of criminal law are specified the following:
historically enduring reality; social value;
scientific phenomenon; mental phenomenon; branch of
law; subject of creative cognition. The authors
substantiate the view regarding the fact that all
these facets of criminal law are not only
substantively interrelated, but also functionally
interact with each other. |
