Abstract: The subject. The article is devoted to the correlation between the level of social welfare and the degree of criminal punishment’s repressiveness.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that improving the social welfare increases perceiving harmfulness of criminal punishment with its constant formal measure and stimulates the mitigation of criminal sanctions.The methodology of the study includes general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, de‐ scription) and sociological approach.The main results and scope of the...
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Topics: 
Criminology
Social psychology
Positive economics