Methodology for study of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine

Abstract

The article reveals the methodology for study of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine. It is noted that the material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine is part of their criminal punishment, so to ignore such an important direction in terms of reforming the criminal and executive system of Ukraine and its transformation into a penitentiary system is unacceptable and inappropriate.
 Moreover, it is emphasized that the material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty is not only part of the structure of procedure and conditions of serving a punishment, it is also a part of the protection of the rights and freedoms of convicts, as violations by the administration of a penal institution (depending on the level of security) housing and sanitary requirements of the legislation cause regular complaints of convicts and their relatives to the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the court.
 It is proved that the methodology for study of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine in general was not the subject of scientific research among domestic scholars. Thus, the issue of the methodology for study of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty in Ukraine became on the agenda of scientific research.
 It was stated that this problem became especially relevant today, when the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine proposed a new strategy for reforming the penitentiary system of Ukraine, and therefore there was a need for scientific support of those measures enshrined in relevant state programs (strategies, concepts, models, etc.).
 The study of the methodology for research of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty showed that the priority methods of such research are sociological, statistical, historical-comparative, comparative-legal and systemic. This approach allowed us to show the interconnected subsystems of research methods and its individual elements.
 The author’s definition of the methodology for study of criminal and executive principles of material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty is formulated – it is a system of scientific knowledge about the methods, techniques and tools that make up the set of tried and tested in the field of execution and serving of criminal sentences rational ways to improve the material and household provision of convicts to deprivation of liberty.