Legal Regulation of Interaction between State Bodies and Civil Society Institutions in Activities of Criminal Executive Inspections: Challenges and Development Prospects
Kashuba Yu.A., Grigor’yan I.G. Legal regulation of interaction between state bodies and civil society institutions in activities of criminal executive inspections: challenges and development prospects. Penitentiary Science, 2025, vol. 19, no. 4 (72), pp. 417–424. doi 10.46741/2686- 9764.2025.72.4.009.
the article analyzes legal regulation of interaction between state bodies and civil
society institutions in the activities of criminal executive inspections, identifies existing problems,
and defines prospects for the development of this interaction in the context of humanizing criminal
policy and expanding the application of non-custodial sentences. Purpose: based on the analysis
of current legislation and law enforcement practice, to identify problems in the legal regulation of
interaction of criminal executive inspections, state bodies and civil society institutions, as well as to
develop proposals for improving the regulatory framework in this area to boost effectiveness of the
execution of non-custodial sentences and resocialization of convicts. Methods: comparative legal
analysis, formal legal method, systematic analysis of regulatory legal acts. Theoretical methods of
formal and dialectical logic, analysis of statistical data, and empirical analysis of law enforcement
practice are applied. Results: the analysis reveals the fragmentation and lack of systematicity in
the legal regulation of the interaction considered. There are the following problems: absence of a
legally defined concept of “interaction” in relation to the activities of criminal executive inspections;
insufficient regulation of information exchange between interacting subjects; and a lack of a clear
delineation of powers and responsibilities among interacting subjects. Significant potential for the
participation of law enforcement and social rehabilitation public associations in activities of criminal
executive inspections is identified. The necessity of improving legislation regulating the procedure
for coordinating places for serving compulsory labor is substantiated. Conclusions: a set of measures
to improve legal regulation of interaction of criminal executive inspections, state bodies and
civil society institutions is proposed, including the development and adoption of special regulatory
legal acts governing this interaction; supplementing the Penal Code of the Russian Federation with
a separate chapter “Interaction of institutions and bodies executing punishments with state bodies
and civil society institutions”; legislative consolidation of the possibility of concluding interaction
agreements between criminal executive inspections and various subjects of crime prevention; development
of standard forms for such agreements; adoption of a federal law regulating the procedure
for coordinating a list of places for serving compulsory labor with local self-government bodies
and organizations; legislative consolidation of forms of participation of civil society institutions in the
activities of criminal executive inspections.
Keywords: criminal executive inspections; interaction; state bodies; civil society institutions; alternative punishments; resocialization of convicts.
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