Subject of criminal law regulation: doctrinal interpretation and legislative model

The article examines the content of the subject of criminal law regulation in the context of its doctrinal interpretation and legislative regulation. Taking into account the increased discussability of the problem stated in the article within criminal law science, its theoretical comprehension aimed to expand the extensive fundamental knowledge already achieved by criminal law thought about the essence, subject, and elemental composition of criminal law regulation, with an emphasis on its legislative model. Within the framework of the research objectives, through a systematic, functional, and logical-legal analysis of the specific nature of legal facts enshrined in criminal law norms that generate criminal law relations, it is proven that the legislative model of the subject of criminal law regulation encompasses four types of legal relations: protective, general preventive, regulatory, and paternalistic. The conclusion is substantiated regarding the expediency of empowering criminal law with the function of regulating the legal consequences of socially dangerous acts of persons not subject to criminal liability due to their age status as defined by criminal law or their state of age immaturity, by constructing an independent chapter in the General Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation titled «Application of Compulsory Educational Measures».