Purpose and tasks of punishment

Subject of research: is the norms of the criminal law devoted to the purposes of criminal punishment. Purpose of the study is to determine the purpose and objectives of punishment, as well as the need for their legislative consolidation. Methods of research: due to the specifics of the study, the methods of system-structural and functional analysis are used as the main ones. Main results of research: since punishment is a consequence of the commission of a crime, it is self-sufficient and does not need an essential goal-setting, as a result of the conducted research, we believe that it is necessary to abandon the formulation of the purpose of punishment in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.