Demographic Policy and Law

Abstract

Demography, which is a social science that concerns itself with questions of population, operates with data such as the size of a population, its growth, age-sex structure, geographic and nationality distribution, makeup by sources of income, social composition, employment, and so forth. Jurisprudence, which studies both provisions of law, their significance, application, etc., and the social relationships of citizens regulated by the state with the assistance of law, makes use of demographic data for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of state administration, strict execution of laws, strengthening of legality and law and order, improvement of provisions of the law, and forecasting in good time of the dynamics of lawbreaking and the necessary means to prevent it.