The main idea of the authors is that the factors reducing the level of criminogenic threats in the society include the work of governmental and public organizations aimed at the resocialization of certain categories of people. The authors present a classification of people in need of resocialization and single out specific categories of those of them who pose a potential threat to law and order, and who are most difficult to resocialize, to be prevented from repeat involvement in criminal activities. In this article, resocialization is understood as a targeted impact on persons released from places of incarceration, as well as those having lawbreaking mentality and dangerous, potentially criminogenic and harmful habits (addictions) with the purpose of involving them in normal life as full members of the society. Using the experience of the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors demonstrate a wide range of possible approaches to resocialization programs, and give an overview of various organizational forms and methods of working with people demonstrating anti-social mindset in the past or deviant behavior in the present. They highlight the prevention measures used for juveniles and trace the connections between the reduction in the crime level and the application of measures to resocialize delinquent groups or other categories of people who pose a potential threat to law and order. The authors also draw attention to the fact that volunteer participation of healthy members of society in resocialization contributes to the success of this work, while state-organized measures alone cannot ensure the reformation and rehabilitation of morally sick persons. The authors believe that studying international experience could be useful both for Russian research and for practical work in the sphere of preventing legal offences in general and repeat crimes in particular.

The book is devoted to some actual problems of philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses the problem of monism-pluralism in philosophy and philosophy of law, criticizes philosophy of postpositivism and postmodernism, and invites to return to dialectic as a universal global methodological basis of scientific cognition. On the basis of dialectics in the book deals with law. It explores the subject of philosophy of law, ontology and epistemology of law, methodology and content of law, legal consciousness and its deformation, problems of legal science and their solutions, legal progress and etc. It substantiates the theory of comprehending study of law. It proposes new ideas and suggestions. Monograph is addressed to researches in the field of philosophy and philosophy of law, lawyers, teachers, postgraduates, students, and also to everyone who are interested in problems of philosophy and law.

The article is devoted to the truth as a problem of philosophy and philosophy of science. The statement is grounded in the article concerning the reasons why it is necessary to take a position of classic truth understanding. The directions of post positivism and postmodernism in philosophy are criticized.

The article is devoted to the clarification of the essence of the law. The article examines the ontology of law, and the epistemology of law reflects the philosophical problems of law. The conclusion about the law as a contradictory social phenomenon is formulated. The article substantiates the theory of the comprehensive (all-encompassing) study of law as a philosophical and philosophical-legal theory, the purpose of which is characterized not in the justification of any one theory of law but in the comprehensive study of law, taking into account all available theories. The comprehensive theory allows us to look at the law philosophically, stating the different properties of the object, their manifestations and contradictions. The article argues that it is the philosophical attitude to the law that many scientists lack.

The article is devoted to the analysis of legislative acts, archival materials, and other narrative sources, on the basis of which a description of one of the church administrative and judicial institutions of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries is given. The principles of the formation of spiritual consistories, the mode of functioning, the specifics of cases examined by this church-judicial body are considered. According to the authors, ecclesiastical consistories performed administrative and judicial roles in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Spiritual consistories were an important element of the system of state and legal institutions during this period. The old concept of the “symphony of powers” was replaced by the principle of subordination of the church to the state. In this regard, the historical fate of the spiritual consistories turned out to be closely connected with the fate of the state and legal institutions of the Russian Empire. The historical development of the Russian Orthodox Church led to the situation when a significant part of legal issues that were of great importance to the population of the Russian Empire was controlled within ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The methodological principles used for the research are the dialectical approach, which enables to consider this problem in historical retrospective; the method of problem-centered analysis; the comparative legal method of legal knowledge.