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Uvarov I.A. The necessary change of priorities of the domestic penal policy in modern socio-cultural conditions. Cognitive Sciences in the Information Society. 2024; 4(4). Available at: https://knio.ru/PDF/06KN424.pdf (in Russian).

The necessary change of priorities of the domestic penal policy in modern socio-cultural conditions

Uvarov Igor Alekseevich
Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Stavropol, Russia
E-mail: uvarov.igor@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-7505
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=456707

Abstract. The socio-economic changes taking place in our country cannot but affect the most sensitive areas of the state’s social policy. One of the most problematic areas in this area of government activity is the fight against crime. In Russian science, there is an idea that this is a purely legal branch, which reduces its effectiveness. Defining it as a purely legal sphere of the state. However, some authors make quite convincing judgments about the «expansion» of the range of scientific understanding of the state’s policy on combating crime (criminal policy). According to the author of the article, this direction should be considered as an element of the state’s social policy. This is due to the fact that the criminal «takes a criminal path» within the framework of certain social relations. Which are implemented not within the framework of the criminal, but the social policy of the state. In addition, bearing criminal responsibility for the committed crime, he is forced to be isolated from society in a correctional institution. According to the majority of Russian authors, the activities of the latter take place within the framework of penal enforcement policy. But at the same time, the essence of punishment remains social, where the legal sphere is limited exclusively to the legal regulation of the process of penitentiary prevention. Based on the social essence of the punishment in the form of imprisonment, the author suggests considering the penal enforcement policy not only or not so much as part of the criminal, but as an element of the social. This kind of methodological approach makes it possible to determine the priority of penal enforcement policy within the framework of specific social relations and processes. The opinion expressed by the author of the article is supported by the results of his own sociological research.

Keywords: social policy of the state; criminal policy of the state; criminal law policy of the state; penal enforcement policy of the state; penitentiary prevention; punishment in the form of imprisonment; the process of execution of punishment in the form of imprisonment

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