Novikova K. Restraint of liberty as a type of punishment.

The dissertation is dedicated to the research of restraint of liberty as a type of punishment. It determines the legal nature of restraint of liberty among other legal restrictions of penal nature, the content, the concept, the place of restraint of liberty in the punishment system and its classification. Also, the work provides general chracteristics of the rules related to applying restraint of liberty, setting forth in the Special Part of Criminal Code of Ukraine. In addition to that, it outlines the application of restraint of liberty in practice by courts, the legal grounds for release from this punishment and its replacing in the light of acheieving the main aims of the punishment. Based on the conducted research, dissertation fomulates recommendations to amend to some articles of Criminal Code of Ukraine to improve consistent application of rules associated with restraint of liberty and offeres some suggestions that can be used by courts while applying restraint of liberty as a punishment for committed crime.