Criminal law is an individual branch of law, which, by analogy with other branches of law, has its own method of regulating legal norms. The method as a set of legal means of influence on social relations, defined by the norms of the considered branch of law, is a very capacious and diverse concept in the legal literature. It should be noted that the method also serves as the basis of an additional character for dividing all rights into branches. The issue of legal regulation methods seems to be complex and poorly studied in all legal science. As for the branch of law under consideration , as a general rule of practice of the legal order, the method of legal regulation is focused on the application of penalties for violation of criminal law prohibitive norms. But this interpretation of the method of legal regulation seems to be the concept of a narrow profile, which is determined by many components that are included in the content of the method.
The components of the method of legal regulation of the industry include the criminal law of the Russian Federation: the procedure for establishing rights and obligations, determining the legal facts that are the beginning of the legal relationship, the relationship of the parties in the legal relations that have arisen, methods and means of ensuring the rights of subjective appointment. The combination of these characteristics in the theory of legal doctrines allows us to determine three methods of legal regulation. These include prohibition and precept, as well as permission. The latter is expressed in the primacy of the governing norms. Prescription acts as an administrative-legal type of regulation. The ban as a method of legal regulation of the industry criminal law is directly stipulated by the norms of criminal law. At the same time, it is taken into account that the branch of law in question is designed to determine crimes and the punishability of acts that are dangerous for an individual, for citizens in the state and determine models of socially dangerous behavior that are prohibited by the law of the country.
Note that all types of legal regulation of the criminal law industry can be found in other branches of law. Here it should be said that in each branch of law, a certain method of legal regulation, which was mentioned above, is decisive. That is, in one branch of law the decisive method is decisive, in another branch of law - permission, in the third branch - the prohibitive method. The criminal law method of legal regulation is not limited to prohibitive norms. That would be wrong. For example, the criminal law norms on necessary defense are of a controlling nature, which allows us to state that the method of authorization as a method of legal regulation exists in the industry criminal law. The indicated methods of legal regulation in each branch of law has characteristics that are complementary to the main ones. They can be specific methods and specify the methods of intersectoral appointment. So, the relations of the criminal law protection type are regulated by certain methods. Such methods include: the use of criminal punishment, criminal prosecution and punishment, the use of medical measures to subjects who, in a state of insanity, committed crimes suffering from various mental disorders, to drug addicts. These measures are mandatory.
The study of the object and method of legal regulation of the industry criminal law formulates the conceptual apparatus of the industry in question. Note that international criminal law is no different from the specified industry, however, it has the characteristic features that are inherent only to this industry, existing and operating in the international arena.