Abstract
On the issue of criminalization and decriminalization of an act on the example of criminal and administrative law The relevance of the topic of the article is determined by the imperfection of the criminal and administrative legal regulation of criminalized and decriminalized individual offenses related primarily to the protection of the interests of the individual, including minors, in recent years in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the course of the analysis of the individual changes and additions made to the criminal and administrative legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the author came to the conclusion that it is necessary to further improve these types of legislation in order to prevent certain violation of law.