EXTERNAL CRIMINAL LAW POLICY OF UKRAINE: GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW POLICY

Abstract

The article provides a theoretical and methodological analysis of Ukraine's foreign criminal-legal policy as an independent direction of state policy in the context of full-scale armed aggression by the rf, European integration processes and the transformation of international criminal law. It is substantiated that the increased participation of Ukraine in the activities of the International Criminal Court, the creation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression and the strengthening of international criminal-legal cooperation actualize the need for a clear theoretical understanding of the goals and objectives of foreign criminal-legal policy and their correlation with international criminal-legal policy.

The doctrinal approaches to understanding the categories of «goal», «objective» and «task» of criminal-legal policy are analyzed and the need for their conceptual distinction is proven. The author's vision of the correlation of these categories is proposed.

It is substantiated that the foreign criminal legal policy of Ukraine is not reduced to a derivative of the international criminal legal policy, but is its national projection, formed taking into account state interests, foreign policy priorities and the peculiarities of the national legal system. The main tasks of the foreign criminal legal policy of Ukraine are determined, in particular, the harmonization of criminal legislation with international standards, the implementation of international legal obligations, ensuring the inevitability of responsibility for international crimes and active participation in international criminal justice mechanisms.

It is concluded that a clear distinction between goals and objectives allows revealing the internal logic of the foreign criminal legal policy of Ukraine, increasing the effectiveness of its implementation and ensuring a balance between the implementation of international obligations and the preservation of the criminal legal sovereignty of the state.


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