Features of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus regulating the legal status of minors serving sentences

The article refers to the implementation of international standards in the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, which regulates the legal status of minor offenders serving sentences in an educational colony. The democratization of social processes allowed the Republic of Belarus to join a number of international agreements relating to human rights and the situation of convicted minors. Obligatory international standards, covenants, conventions ratified by the republic are characterized by direct legal effect: they must be directly applied in legislation. Attention is also paid to the main issues of the execution of sentences against minor offenders as well as their re-socialization after being released from the educational colony. The problems of juvenile delinquency as an independent asocial phenomenon characterized by structure, dynamics and causes are analyzed. A criminological study is presented, which made it possible to single out circumstances that negatively affect the spiritual and moral education of a teenager, comlicating his physiological development and thereby leading to the commission of a crime.

Keywords: juvenile delinquency; educational colony; criminalization of the personality of a minor; serving sentences by minor delinquents; preventive measures for minor delinquency; social adaptation