Modern tendencies of the Kazakhstan criminal policy of law in regulation of the relations on release from a criminal responsibility

Abstract

In the article the basic directions of improvement of the institute of exemption from criminal responsibility in national legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors note that the rules for exemption from criminal liability were highlighted in an independent institution with the entry into force of the Fundamentals of Criminal Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics of 1958 and the Criminal Code of the Kazakh SSR, 1959. The comparative characteristic of the types of exemption from criminal responsibility, enshrined in the Criminal Code of the Kazakh SSR 1959, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1997 and 2014. Analyzes new types of exemption from criminal liability: if the conditions and procedural arrangements with the establishment of the guarantee. Modern trends in Kazakhstan's criminal policy is to preserve the common types of exemption from criminal responsibility of the Soviet period and the constant increase in the number of types of release, according to the appreciation of the institution by the legislator as an effective legal instrument for crime prevention.