THE PROBLEM TO IMPROVE THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE CRIMINOLOGICAL EXPERTISE OF DRAFT NORMATIVE LEGAL ACTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

Abstract

Criminological expertise of draft normative legal acts is one of the modern legal means of crime prevention. In the Republic of Armenia, some regulations of subparagraph "e" of paragraph 3 of Government Resolution No. 1127-N, dated 07/22/2004, "On the establishment of the State non-profit organization 'National Bureau of Expertise' of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and approval of its Charter," are devoted to this expertise. According to these regulations, one of the goals of the Bureau is to organize and conduct criminological expertise of draft legal acts by decision of the bodies possessing law-making powers. To achieve this goal, based on subparagraph 47 of paragraph 10 of Appendix 1 of Government Resolution No. 1039-N, dated 03/27/2008, "On the approval of the State Crime Prevention Program in the Republic of Armenia," the Scientific Research Center for Applied Problems of Criminology was established in the Bureau in 2009.

The results of the author's research indicate that the above-mentioned legal foundations of the expertise are insufficient. There are no mechanisms for organizing and conducting the expertise under discussion, and as a result, the specified center has not carried out any such expertise so far. Based on this, the author considers it necessary to provide appropriate regulations, including the adoption of the law "On Criminological Expertise of Draft Normative Legal Acts." According to the author, this law will define the concept, tasks, principles, objects, and other relations related to the problems of the specified expertise.