Criminal law exists to meet the needs of society in ensuring security. At the same time, modern trends in social development, as rightly noted by I. V. Kolosov, the author of the monograph «History of legal consequentialism: the effectiveness of law», in relation to which this review article has been prepared, lead to the fact that the categories of «utility», «benefit», «efficiency» and «result» are becoming more and more significant in the modern world. Thus, criminal law and criminal policy are beginning to face qualitatively different requirements related to the need to ensure the effectiveness of legal regulation and law enforcement. With this in mind, it is relevant and significant to discuss issues related to the effectiveness of criminal law. This article is a review-discussion of topical issues of the effectiveness of criminal law on the basis of the monograph indicated above. Despite its historical-theoretical and philosophical-legal nature, a significant part is devoted to the issues of effectiveness in criminal law. The most significant are the conclusions of the author of the monograph about the effective severity of punishments and the effective threshold of proof in the framework of criminal policy.
consequentialism, utilitarianism, effectiveness of law, legal consequentialism, criminal liability, punishment, effectiveness of criminal liability, measures of criminal legal influence
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