LEGAL NORMS AS THE TOOLS FOR COORDINATING OF PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FACTORS OF THE ENSURING COUNTRY SECURITY УДК 343.341

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of ensuring the security of the social system of Russia. Examples of public consciousness as a basis for coordinating the factors of sustainability of social processes considered the experience of using legal acts as means of the public administration purposefulness ensuring. The paper shows socially dangerous acts recognized as crimes, the types of punishments and other measures of a criminal nature for their commission, including in the presence of a religious factor. Restrictions in such punishments are the norms regulating the grounds for exemption from criminal liability, as well as a number of other criminal law institutions.

The paper shows the determinism of cause-and-effect relations in the norms of criminal law and in the influence of religious factors, which determines the features of the ideology adopted in the public consciousness. The analysis of the legal applicability essential aspects of criminal law legislative norms revealed the fact that the religious factor has not only an indirect, but also a direct impact on political and social attitudes. In this regard, measures to neutralize religious extremism and terrorism in order to ensure the security of the constitutional order and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation are very necessary.

Examples of the norms of modern Russian criminal legislation aimed at improving the neutralization of threats to the security of the constitutional system and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation show the role of the state in countering separatist, extremist, and radical manifestations, in developing measures to prevent the expansion of radical Islamic fundamentalism associations. The conducted research shows that in Russia it is necessary to strengthen work on timely identification and neutralization of extremist activities of religious groups and organizations, in preventing ideological justification of religious and political extremism under the slogans of "protection of the rights of the nation", "protection of the rights of faith", "protection of human rights", etc.