Legal Regulation Features of Convicted Persons Correction and Resocialization in Foreign Countries

Abstract

The article is devoted to modern experience analysis of convict’s correction and resocialization legislative regulation issues in foreign countries. The purpose of the study is to analyze current regulations and provisions of comprehensive rehabilitation programs content for convicts to find optimal model for international experience implementation in Ukrainian legal system. The achievement of this goal was facilitated by the use of general scientific and special legal methods of scientific knowledge, in particular: comparative-legal, dialectical, formal-logical, systemic, etc. In the course of the study, the general array of regulatory legal acts was analyzed on common grounds within geographic regions, the norms for the correction and resocialization of convicts, the legislative framework for the use of integrated programs were considered, and their own conclusions were established on adapting the penitentiary legislation of Ukraine in accordance with the best practices of different countries.