The actuality of the subject: Promoting the most important social values, protecting them and guaranteeing an effective procedure to remove the consequences of the attack are paramount tasks of contemporary society and the rule of law. Depending on the significance of the values harmed by the criminal phenomenon, manifested in various forms, the legislator establishes a different legal mechanism of social defense. At the same time, in order to ensure a peaceful climate, it is necessary to develop a complex scientific basis, which will provide solutions and methods to prevent and combat the phenomenon of crime.