Problems of legal regulation of mortgage in criminal legal proceedings

The subject of the research was the legal regulation of the pledge as one of the preventive measures applied in the Russian criminal proceedings. The purpose of the work is to analyze the problems of electing and applying pledge. Based on the study of statistics, an analysis is made of the effectiveness of the establishment by the legislator of collateral amounts depending on the severity of the act. The article poses the problem of establishing in the Code of Criminal Procedure of economically unjustified pledge sums, the introduction of which is very problematic for the majority of suspects (accused). According to the author of this work, to expand the scope of the pledge as an alternative to detention, it is necessary to refuse to establish in the law the minimum amount of bail.