Journal section JURISPRUDENCE
Improving the legal regulation of incentive measures and penalties applied to those sentenced to imprisonment
The article analyzes the current problems of legal regulation and the application of
incentives and penalties for convicts serving sentences of imprisonment. The scientific
work contains a historical content analysis of the current systems of measures of incentives
and penalties in different periods of the historical development of society and the penal
system of the Russian Federation.
Based on the conducted empirical research among 20 employees - detachment
commanders from 13 regions of Russia, undergoing advanced training the program
«Organization of educational work» in the Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of
the Federal Penal Service of Russia, the authors of the article prepared a number of
recommendations and suggestions for improving the current legislation and its application
in this area.
The article draws attention to the exclusion of ineffective incentives from the penal
legislation of the Russian Federation, in particular, the award of a gift and a cash prize.
Proposals were made to expand the list of incentive measures to ensure the differentiation
and individualization of the sentence of imprisonment.
The authors made proposals to improve the penalties applied to those sentenced to
imprisonment: to increase the size of the disciplinary penalty, taking into account inflation,
not to include the convicted person in a punishment cell and a single chamber type in the
general term of serving a sentence, to add the list of penalties. In addition, the article deals with the problems of recognizing a convict as a malicious violator of the established order
of punishment.
The results of the study can be used in the educational process in the study of legal
disciplines, in the law enforcement practice of employees of the penal system of the
Russian Federation, as well as for further research in this area.
Keywords: convict; incentives and penalties; disciplinary action; stimulating norms; violation of the established order of punishment; malicious violator of the established order of punishment; penal isolator; chamber type room; single room chamber type
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Penal Law and the Organization of Educational Work with Convicts of the Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of the Federal Penal Service of Russia, PhD. in Law.
, e-mail grachevaluda2012@yandex.ru
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4th year student of the Law Faculty of the Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of the Federal Penal Service of Russia
, e-mail hea97@rambler.ru
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Service of Russia)]. Sbornik metodicheskih rekomendacij FSIN Rossii – Collection of guidelines of the Federal Penal Service
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denezhnyh summ, predusmotrennyh dlya priobreteniya osuzhdennymi produktov pitaniya i predmetov pervoj
neobhodimosti : feder. zakon ot 13.07.2015 № 260-FZ [On amending the Penal Code of the Russian Federation in terms of
increasing the monthly sums provided for the purchase of food and basic necessities by the convicted person : Federal Law
from 13.07.2015 No. 260-FL]. Sobr. zakonodatel’stva Ros. Federacii – Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation.
2015. Iss. 29 (part I). Art. 4386. (In Russ.).
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s Federal’nym zakonom «O vnesenii izmenenij i dopolnenij v Ugolovnyj kodeks Rossijskoj Federacii» : feder. zakon ot
08.12.2003 № 161-FZ (red. ot 03.07.2016) [On bringing the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and other
legislative acts into conformity with the Federal Law « About modification and additions in the Criminal code of the Russian
Federation» : Federal Law from 08.12.2003 No. 161-FZ (in red. on 03.07.2016)]. Sobr. zakonodatel’stva Ros. Federacii –
Collection of Legislation of the Russian Federation. 2003. Iss. 50. Art. 4847. (In Russ.).
7. Savushkin S. M. Poryadok perevoda v edinye pomeshcheniya kamernogo tipa ili v tyur’mu osuzhdennyh, yavlyayushchihsya
zlostnymi narushitelyami ustanovlennogo poryadka otbyvaniya nakazaniya : metod. rekomendacii [The procedure for
transferring convicted persons to a single cell-type room or jail who are malicious violators of the established order of
punishment serving : guidelines]. Novokuznetsk, 2018. (In Russ.).
8. Fedyaev A. Е. Mery vzyskaniya, primenyaemye k osuzhdennym, otbyvayushchim nakazanie v ispravitel’nyh uchrezhdeniyah
Rossijskoj Federacii : dis. … kand. yurid. nauk [Recovery measures applied to convicts serving sentences in correctional
institutions of the Russian Federation : the diss. ... PhD. In Law]. Omsk, 2005. 205 p. (In Russ.).
9. CHernyshenko Е. V. Problemy realizacii disciplinarnoj otvetstvennosti v otnoshenii osuzhdennyh k lisheniyu svobody
[Problems of implementation of disciplinary responsibility in relation to those sentenced to imprisonment]. Vestn. in-ta:
prestuplenie, nakazanie, ispravlenie – Bulletin of the Institute: Crime, Punishment, Correction. 2017. Iss. 3 (39). P. 16–19.
(In Russ.).