COMPARATIVE JURISPRUDENCE IN THE FIELD OF CRIMINAL LAW

The article examines the role and significance of the method of comparative jurisprudence in criminal law research, notes its object, as well as the specifics of the knowledge obtained as a result of its application. The correlation of the method of comparative jurisprudence in criminal law with other legal branches of law is carried out: with the theory of state and law, the history of law, international criminal law, criminology, penal enforcement law, legal statistics. Their interdependence and conditionality are established, the effectiveness and relevance of the method of comparative law are determined. It is concluded that the method of comparative jurisprudence in criminal law allows us to obtain a generalized scientific product about the main laws of the development of national and foreign criminal law, about the relationships with other branches of law and legal disciplines; to distinguish one branch of knowledge from another; to consider legal categories, institutions and norms in their historical formation and development; to identify new results for the transition from the known to the unknown, using the scientific tools developed by the general theory of law.