The meaning of textbooks on crimimnal law in Criminal Law System of Ukraine is pointed out. Such textbooks and tutorials, which were published after reconstruction of Ukraine’s independence, are characterized. Their disadvantages are revealed and it is stated, that quantity of these resources doesn’t move into their quality.

Requirements to the textbooks and other sources of educational literature in modern conditions are formed. It is focused on the necessity to move from commenting and apology of current legislation to the analysis of criminal and legal problems. The attention is payed to the necessity of changing the structure of textbooks, according to modern ideas about social values hierarchy, which are under criminal and legal protection. The analysis of through criminal and legal notions is proposed to select as a separate didactic direction. The way of textbook on crimimnal law in electronic form with interactive links may look like is showed.

It turns out that the circle and depth of the problems do not indicate their incompleteness. In the end, the lack of understanding and reluctance to introduce EQO as a form of admission test for graduates of law schools of education who want to continue to prepare for a master’s degree, were no less. However – more or less successfully overcome. There is reason to hope that lawyers, being representatives of the specialty, focusing on stability and traditions, will show an example in introducing new forms of education and modern sources for studying the relevant discipline.

Key words: a textbook, form of textbook, Criminal Law, sources of educational literature, criminal and legal notions.

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