Resocialization of convicts as a strategic goal of the criminal-executive system through the prism of determining the criminal-executive policy

Abstract

The article presents the author's vision of the problem of resocialization of convicts as a strategic goal for the criminal-executive system, determined by the state's criminal-executive policy. In the course of the research, controversial issues of interpretation of such definitions as: "policy", "anti­criminal policy”, "criminal enforcement policy", "resocialization of convicts" were considered.
 In the process of research, attention is focused on the specifics of the doctrinal definition of a multifaceted social phenomenon - politics, which made it possible to formulate the author's view on the concept of anti-criminal policy. The author proposes to consider it as a practice of subjects authorized by the people of the country to develop the state's general line regarding the impact on crime, which covers the definition of the main concept (strategy) of the directions and means of its implementation, the allocation of the necessary resources for this, and the implementation of control and supervision over its implementation in life
 Based on the given generic concept and modern doctrinal positions, the author formulates an understanding of criminal enforcement policy as a separate type of anti-criminal policy, which is manifested in the activities of authorized subjects to determine strategic goals, principles of operation, tasks for the system of execution and serving of punishments, means their achievement, as well as control and supervision of the process of implementing such plans.
 In the future, taking into account the results of the above analysis of legislative norms regulating the distribution of powers of state bodies in the field of internal policy formation, the author specified the criminal enforcement policy as the activity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to define strategic goals, principles of operation, tasks for the system of execution and serving of punishments, means for their achievement, as well as the implementation of parliamentary control over the process of implementing such plans.
 The review of the normative essence of the resocialization of convicts through the prism of the given definition of criminal enforcement policy made it possible to reveal its role as a strategic target guide for the punitive mechanism of the state. Further consideration of the legal concept of resocialization of convicts, enshrined in the Criminal Enforcement Law, revealed the fact that its content is presented ambiguously, as well as in general such that it cannot be defined by signs. Based on the results of the research, the author makes a statement about the potential impossibility of the criminal-executive system, no matter what conditions it creates for the correction of convicts, to achieve its strategic goal - the resocialization of persons serving a sentence.