Some Aspects of Crisis of Punishment

Abstract

An important area of criminal law discourse in recent decades has been the idea of a crisis in criminal punishment. At the same time, the crisis of punishment is seen in the fact that it in no way can achieve the goals set for it to prevent crimes and correct the perpetrators. The article substantiates the opinion that such an approach to assessing the theory and practice of punishment is not entirely justified. The crisis of punishment is not that it is incapable of achieving a goal, but that society and the state set deliberately unattainable goals before punishment. What is called the crisis of punishment is in fact a crisis of goal-setting in criminal punishment.