The relevance of the study of the role of the synergistic paradigm in jurisprudence in general and criminology in particular is determined by the current methodological and theoretical situation in the social and humanitarian sciences, which develop mainly within the framework of a linear paradigm, which usually presents social evolution monistically: as a one-variant and non-alternative development. Synergetics as a method of cognition, which has acquired meaning at the philosophical level, offers fundamentally new approaches to the cognition of reality.