STATE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE INSTITUTIONS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article reveals the state of scientific research of the criminal offense’s prevention in criminal-executive institutions in Ukraine. It has been proved that, in essence, such offences are committed by both convicts and staff of these institutions. Their actions or activities encroach on undermining the authority of justice and the activities of criminal-executive institutions of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. Since isolation from society often contributes to personal degradation and the loss of socially useful ties, we found in the process of research that the criminal offense was committed by the convict while serving his sentence not only with his personal guilt, but also with the guilt of the staff of the prison facilities of the SCES of Ukraine. Moreover, each criminal offence committed in these institutions differs according to the criteria, which gives a classification of penitentiary crime. In the process of studying the state of the problem criminal offenses preventing in criminal-executive institutions, we established that in domestic criminological science there is not enough scientific and practical definition of the concept of "criminal crime". Pluralism, we observe confirms our hypothesis about the fidelity of choosing the topic of study. Further changes in state policy in the field of sentences execution and probation of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine contributed to the creation of scientific works of a monographic nature and a number of dissertations, and significantly help to carry out modern reform of the penitentiary system of Ukraine. We conducted a thorough analysis of the domestic scientific works in the field of criminal offenses preventing in criminal-executive institutions, showed the undisputed contribution of each scientist, creating fundamental prerequisites for further scientific research in the defined field. It should be noted that the analysis of the current state of domestic scientific research on the criminal offenses prevention in criminal-executive institutions provided an opportunity to highlight the main areas of further study of this issue: criminal legal analysis of criminal offenses in those institutions; the criminological basis for these offences preventing; identification of subjects for the prevention of criminal offences in criminal-executive institutions; substantiation of the appropriateness of the prosecutor's office as a subject for the prevention of criminal offenses in these institutions.