PREVENTIVE MEASURES OF PROBATION REGARDING JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Abstract

Juvenile justice is increasingly perceived as a system of preventing the causes of juvenile crime in Ukrainian society. This leads to the modernization of the system of crime prevention among children. Many options were proposed to improve domestic preventive measures based on a critical analysis of the preventive components of juvenile delinquency prevention. The main task of this article is to highlight the problems of the probation service and to consider and analyze the preventive measures of probation for juvenile offenders. According to the Law of Ukraine "On Probation" probation is a system of supervisory and social-educational measures applied by a court decision and in accordance with the law to convicts, execution of certain types of criminal punishments not related to deprivation of liberty, and providing the court with information, which characterizes the accused. The purpose of probation is to ensure public safety by correcting offenders, preventing them from re-offending, and providing the court with information about the characteristics of the accused in order to determine their level of responsibility. The main principles of probation: justice, legality, the inevitability of punishment, respect for the rights and freedoms of citizens, respect for human dignity, equality before the law, confidentiality, impartiality, cooperation and interaction of state and local self-government bodies. Therefore, the probation system should be part of the juvenile justice system, as a set of measures that can be applied to a person found guilty, if he is sentenced to a certain term of imprisonment or other responsibility, in order to establish certain limits and obligations regarding the offender for the purpose of social rehabilitation. Therefore, the probation system should be a part of the juvenile justice system as a set of measures that are applied to a person found guilty by the courts of committing a crime. In recent years, the state authorities of Ukraine, scientists and individual public organizations have taken serious steps towards the implementation of state policy in the field of criminal-executive relations. In this area, many normative legal acts and legislative initiatives have been adopted. Several draft laws on the humanization of criminal law have been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, including through the introduction of probation. The results of the research show that the complexity of the resocialization process requires special knowledge of psychology and social work from probation officers.