Main Directions and the Research Potential of Criminal Law Sciences in Baikal State University

Abstract

The article is devoted to the state of criminal law science in Baikal State University, as an interim result of the development and growth of law education at this University in the previous 30 years. The anniversary makes it necessary to turn to the background of the formation of a major scientific school within the University, as well as to assess both the prospects and the key vector of its further development. It is stressed that the scientific work of the lecturers from the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology, Chair of Criminal Procedure and Prosecutorial Supervision, Chair of Criminalistics, Forensic Examination and Legal Psychology is aimed, in the strategic sense, at solving the urgent problems in the spheres of criminology, support of criminal proceedings, solving and investigating crimes, execution of punishments both in Russia as a whole and in our region in particular, on the basis of research and the implementation of obtained results.