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БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ОБЩЕСТВА И ГОСУДАРСТВА КАК ОБЪЕКТ УГОЛОВНО-ПРАВОВОЙ ОХРАНЫ
Introduction. In modern Russia, the crime rate is negatively impacted by social, economic, demographic, geopolitical, technological and other processes of domestic and foreign policy nature. This requires the modernization of criminal-legal mechanisms for ensuring the security of society and the state. The article examines general issues of criminal-legal support of public and state security: the genesis and development of their criminal- legal support are considered. The objective of the study is to identify problems of legislative regulation of liability for the crimes provided for in Chapters 24 "Crimes against Public Security" and 29 "Crimes against the Foundations of the Constitutional System and State Security" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as to develop proposals aimed at improving the criminal law. Research Methodology: general scientific and specific methods of cognition were used: dialectical, method of analysis and synthesis, as well as historical, formal-logical, systemic-structural, statistical methods, and the method of scientific interpretation. The study concluded that new approaches to the hierarchy of goods/values/interests/social relations protected by criminal law are needed, and, consequently, that an appropriate structure for the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation should be defined, one in which public and state security are not separated into different classification headings within the Special Section; and that an appropriate level of public danger should be established, allowing for the distinction of crimes from other torts and ensuring an effective balance between criminal and administrative law enforcement.