The relationship of substantive and procedural law on the example of criminal law and criminal procedural law

AbstractOver the past years, domestic criminal and criminal procedural legislation has undergone significant changes aimed at improving its norms, implementing advanced international standards and foreign practices in order to unconditionally ensure the rights and freedoms of citizens involved in criminal proceedings. At the same time, a number of problems and shortcomings remain in the judicial and investigative practice, including those caused by the imperfection of certain norms of criminal and criminal procedure legislation, which hinder the effective implementation of the country's criminal law policy. Therefore, the study of the most important issues of the relationship between criminal and criminal procedural law has become especially relevant and timely, especially since many facets and levels of the relationship between substantive and procedural criminal law are completely new and do not yet have an unambiguous solution. This explains the choice of research objective in this article: to reveal the essence and identify the characteristic features of criminal law and criminal procedure law; study of various aspects, forms and levels of the relationship between criminal and criminal procedural law. Scientific novelty lies in the author's approach to determining the relationship between criminal and criminal procedural law.