CONCEPT OF CRIMINAL LEGAL SPHERE
The criminal law sphere in the aggregate of essential properties, the organizational component and the external legal form of consolidation is a key link in the mechanism for implementing the law enforcement function of the state. The results of the study allow us to resolve the debatable question of which government agencies can be classified as law enforcement agencies. Along with this, the concept of criminal law is given in the broad sense, the unified nature of the administrative and criminal liability of legal entities (repressive type of liability) is revealed.The study has theoretical and practical significance. Theoretical is associated with the formation of the concept of the criminal law sphere, and practical - with the development of recommendations for modernizing management in the law enforcement sphere, for monitoring organizational risks and reducing them in the work of law enforcement agencies.The study used general scientific and special methods of cognition (normative, comparative legal, theoretical analysis and generalization), systemic and functional approaches.Based on the study, the following conclusions are made: 1) the criminal law sphere is a complex socio-legal phenomenon that includes three levels of its characteristics, which are organically interconnected and in their unity give a holistic view of the criminal law sphere as a conceptual basis of criminal law in a broad sense; 2) in a substantive aspect, the criminal law sphere can be defined as the combination of its essential properties (goals, principles, criminal law policy, criminal law relations, criminal legal personality of individuals and legal entities, etc.), the organizational component - law enforcement infrastructure and external - the legal form of consolidation of this sphere - criminal law in the broadest sense.