EXECUTION AND SERVING OF SENTENCES: CRIMINAL-LEGAL AND CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE ASPECTS

Abstract

The article highlights the issue penal characteristics sentenced to imprisonment, the analysis of criminal-executive legislation of Ukraine, which regulates the execution of sentences of imprisonment, given the state of compliance and ensuring the rights and responsibilities of citizens serving sentences, attempt to describe the procedure and conditions of serving criminal sentences. The criminal executive legislation of Ukraine regulates the procedure and conditions for the execution and serving of criminal punishments with the aim of protecting the interests of the individual, society and the state by creating conditions for the correction and resocialization of convicts, preventing the commission of new crimes by both convicts and other persons, as well as preventing torture and inhuman or degrading treatment of convicts. When carrying out the criminal-executive characterization of those sentenced to deprivation of liberty, the main attention should be paid to those features that directly form the personality of the criminal. Such signs, in particular, include socio-demographic, criminal-legal, moral-psychological ones. Improving the order of conditions for the execution and serving of criminal punishments is a necessary component for the development of Ukraine as a democratic, legal state. Current criminal enforcement legislation of Ukraine is based on the principle that a convicted person is not an object of educational influence, but is a subject of criminal enforcement relations, the protection of the rights, legal interests and obligations of which must be guaranteed by the criminal enforcement legislation. Therefore, it is important to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the feedback between the state institutions that carry out the punishment and the convicted person, from the point of view of achieving the goal of correction and returning a law-abiding person to society.