The spread of cultural-anthropological methodology to the problems of modern criminal law enabled to formulate a new doctrinal definition of criminal law as a culturally agreed system of social freedoms focused on protecting social, material and spiritual values that are the human culture achievements and belong to a person. The proposed cultural-anthropological dimension allowed us to substantiate the  appropriateness of recognition anthropodicy as a paradigm of modern criminal law. The idea of periodization of  criminal law genesis was further developed with the identification of three qualitatively different periods of premodern, modern and postmodern, each of which is distinguished by a special role  played in culture in general and criminal law in particular. The article provides  different understanding of social justice as the purpose of applying criminal law which is more complicated in the context of the rule of law dominance than in the traditional understanding of the compliance between crime and punishment. The proposed approach allows to obtain a new type of criminal law, in which a person, regardless of the nature of participation in criminal relations, is provided with a number of rights and legal opportunities to protect their own, or those represented by it, interests. Іn addition, it creates grounds for further study of less global, but no less relevant problems of criminal law, in particular, ensuring objective criminalization, the formation of a coherent system of criminal law measures as a legal consequence of a socially dangerous act, the ratio of measures to physical and legal persons, etc.

The article made an overview analysis of selected scientific publications placed in the published in 2021 a collection of scientific papers " Latest Criminal Law Research - 2021", which had been prepared in connection with the formation and further discussion of the draft Criminal Code of Ukraine. Researchers raise a wide range of issues related to the formation of the fundamental foundations of a new in content and form of criminal law, and of its individual institutions in order to find effective forms and measures to counter the challenges that have emerged in the context of widespread criminalization of various spheres of human life. Modern Ukrainian criminal law is in a state of comprehensive transformation caused by socio-economic, political, ideological and other changes in society and the state. Building a legal and social state, transforming society in order to give it the content of a civil society is impossible without a fundamental change in law. This is what determines the schedule of most scientific events of various formats and requires Ukrainian researchers, both theorists and practitioners, to participate in the discussion of a large number of debatable issues of the normative definition and practice of applying legal norms in various branches of law. It should be noted that representatives of the Ukrainian criminal law doctrine are at the forefront of the formation of a modern, both in form and in content, branch of criminal law. Naturally, most of the well-known representatives of the Ukrainian criminal law elite are members of the Public Organization "All-Ukrainian Association of Criminal Law" and provide real support to the activities of the Working Group on the Development of Criminal Law, which functions as a structural unit of the Commission on Legal Reform, created by the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated August 7, 2019 No. 584/2019. The pages of the annual publication of scientific papers "Latest Criminal Law Research - 2021" have become the traditional venue for discussions on topical issues of Ukrainian criminal law. The general purpose of this survey study is to conduct an analysis of thematic publications, which includes: a) the topic under study; c) the relevance of its consideration, taking into account modern needs; c) contribution to the development of criminal law science; e) sources used and links to scientific publications. From a methodological point of view, this study is close to hermeneutics, obtained as a result of deep understanding and interpretation of 10 scientific articles. Among the most significant conclusions, it stands out that the core of modern criminal law is a person to whom this place has been replaced by the state. In addition, the studies of Ukrainian scientists are consonant with the current problems and trends of the world criminal law science, which cannot but affect the formation of modern Ukrainian criminal law.

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