The Pronciple of a Progressive System of Serving the Sentence of Deprivation of Liberty

Abstract

The current policy of the Russian Federation in the Penal sphere stems from the need for a humane attitude to persons, breaking a law. The achievement of the goals for improving the efficiency of institutions and bodies implementing sentences and reduce recidivism of crimes committed by persons who have served their sentence, the concept of development of the penal correction system of the Russian Federation up to the year 2020 is associated with the development of the legislation and subsequent implementation in practice a set of measures focus on social adaptation of convicts. The vast majority of the principles enshrined in the Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation are implemented in practical activities of the institutions and bodies of criminal executive system. The scientific literature provides quite detailed approaches to the concept and classification of the principles of the criminal-executive law and legislation. Individual scien-tists-penitenciarists distinguish principles of independent institutes and the criminal-executive law, for example the institute of changes in terms of serving the sentence of deprivation of liberty. There is a lack of legal regulation, and accordingly the application within the specified legal institution for the principle of a progressive system of serving the sentence of deprivation of liberty. The authors justify the urgency and necessity of introducing the principle of a progressive system of serving imprisonment in penal enforcement legislation make proposals to improve the given industry. Structurally, the article consists of several parts. In part one of this article, the authors explore the concept and classification of the principles of law generally and criminal-executive law in particular. In the second part of the article the authors analyze the concept and the essence of modern progressive system serving the sentence of deprivation of liberty, and are considering various approaches of scientists-penitenciarists to the issue. In the third part of the article they justify the proposals submitted in the Criminal-Executive legislation of the Russian Federation associated with the principle of a progressive system of serving imprisonment.