Penal Characteristics of Particularly Dangerous Recidivists (Conditions and Place of Serving the Sentence, Social Ties)
Seliverstov V.I., Grushin F.V. Penal characteristics of particularly dangerous recidivists (conditions and place of serving the sentence, socialties). Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 2 (70), pp. 131–143. doi 10.46741/2686-9764.2025.70.2.003.
The article analyzes penal characteristics of particularly dangerous recidivists who are held in special-regime correctional facilities on the basis of materials of the 2022 special census of convicts and persons in custody. Some features of the execution of imprisonment in these correctional institutions are shown. The article specifies distribution of convicts according to the time of transfer to the place of serving their sentence; duration of detention in a pre-trial detention center; conditions of serving the sentence; the place of serving the sentence; the number of correctional institutions; the use of the right to telephone conversations; the receipt and dispatch of money transfers; the number of parcels and transfers received; the number of book parcels received; and the number of short-term and long-term visitations allowed. Purpose: to provide a detailed analysis of penal characteristics of convicts held in specialregime correctional facilities. Methods: comparative law and empirical methods of description, interpretation, theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic, a legal-dogmatic method and a method of interpretation of legal norms. Results: the specifics of the conditions and place of serving a sentence and social ties of this category of convicts are described. Conclusion: the information obtained will make it possible to boost effectiveness of achieving the goals of punishment in the execution of imprisonment in special-regime correctional facilities.
Keywords: persons sentenced to imprisonment, special-regime correctional facilities, penal characteristics.
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