The main stages of evolution of the legal criminal measure system in Russia

In the article the author presents the results of the conducted historical and legal
analysis of criminal law in the regulating sphere of its action under the criminal law originally.
The author suggests a periodization of their regulatory history, identifies the key features
of evolution of these legislative measures, presents the evidence of the continued range
expansion the means of the legal criminal crime prevention. The author also points out the
absence of the universal theory of the legal criminal measures.

Keywords: historical and legal method; the history of criminal law; the legal criminal measures; the history of criminal penalties; alternative penalties