Keyword: «evaluative concepts»

The article presents the results of a comparative legal study of the criminal legis-lation of the CIS countries and neighboring countries (Belarus, Armenia, Abkha-zia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia) in order to study the cur-rent state of such a technique of legal technique as the use of evaluative concepts in criminal legislation. According to the results of the research, individual features of the development of evaluative concepts, their content and methods of consoli-dation in the criminal legislation of these countries have been identified.