State criminal law: «thresholds» and «vices» of scientific understanding

The article analyzes the experience of scientific understanding of the contemporary condition of domestic criminal law. An attempt to identify the main criteria and indicators which are used by experts in the evaluation and characterization of the situation in criminal law. According to the results of studies made and reasonably of the opinion that scientists used methods cannot be considered accurate and focused on reliable and consistent display the status of the criminal law, and their reasoning are fragmented and opposition in relation to other sources and subjects of knowledge.