ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL LAW SOCIOLOGY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF PENAL PROHIBITIONS' THEORY

The author examines the correlation between criminology and criminal law sociology as a component of criminal law science. In particular, he studies the issue of confrontation between criminology and criminal law, their final demarcation and the recognition of criminology as the dominant science among criminal law disciplines. Using the analysis of fundamental textbooks of criminology the author concludes that leading Russian criminologists do not even agree on a common approach to defining the essence of this science, its object, its place in the system of other disciplines as well as that criminology cannot encompass a group of essentially social issues directly connected with the theory of penal prohibitions that should be studied within the framework of criminal law sociology. That is why criminologists should determine which criminology our country needs and should agree on its fundamental propositions.