Sociology of international criminal law: history and modernity

Abstract

In modern realities, the use of a sociological approach to study the norms and institutions of international criminal law seems to be very relevant and promising. The purpose of this article is to substantiate the proposition that such an approach makes it possible to identify the positive and negative consequences of the actions of these norms and institutions for the world community, as well as to assess their legitimacy, qualitative characteristics, and effectiveness. The achievement of this goal is facilitated by the solution of tasks that, in their totality, ensured the synthesis of international criminal law and sociology, which created positive knowledge about social facts or patterns due to the actions of criminal law to ensure global security and international law and order in general. The study of verified and time-tested doctrinal provisions of sociology and international criminal law was carried out on the basis of the basic laws and categories of dialectics. The use of philosophical, general scientific and special scientific methods allowed the authors to gain new knowledge about the object, subject, tasks and functions of the sociology of international criminal law, and the scientific community - the necessary evaluation and analytical material for making productive geopolitical decisions.

Based on the results of the study, the conclusion is formulated that this sub-branch of scientific knowledge, on the one hand, should play a general theoretical role, embodying the doctrinal status of the sociology of international criminal law, and, on the other hand, by means of empirical methods to determine the social conditionality and effectiveness of the criminal law prohibition in the field of protection of the rights, freedoms and interests of the world community at the planetary and regional levels.