Feasibility and objectives in the Russian criminal law

Criminal law regulation presupposes the achievement of certain socially useful results. These results in the criminal law are differentiated into two groups: the tasks of criminal law and the objectives of criminal punishment. At the same time, the basis for building the system of these results lies in a category that undoubtedly claims to be an independent legal principle - expediency in lawmaking and law enforcement activities. The presented work is devoted to the analysis of the content of the categories of «tasks», «goals» and «expediency» in criminal law and the specifics of their use as grounds for modern criminal policy.