The dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive study of the criminal executive principles of resocialization of convicts in penitentiaries in Ukraine. The work substantiates a number of provisions and conclusions that are new in conceptual terms and important for legal science, as well as for the activities of the bodies and institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
The study of special educational, methodological and scientific sources in the context of the subject matter of the study has provided grounds to find out that the issue of criminal executive principles of resocialization of convicts in the places of detention of the SPS of Ukraine has not been fully developed, since scholars have mainly considered the activities of the entire criminal executive system of Ukraine from the standpoint of criminal law, criminal executive law, criminology, psychology and pedagogy. With this in mind, the author emphasizes the need for legislative improvement of a number of problematic issues related to the application of resocialization measures to prisoners in places of detention. The author reveals the status and methodology of scientific research of resocialization of convicts in places of detention of the SPS of Ukraine.
The study of the concept and content of the penal and correctional principles of resocialization of prisoners in places of detention made it possible to identify not only their stages and phases, but also to propose the author's definition of the penal and correctional principles of resocialization of prisoners in places of detention in Ukraine - these are the initial regulatory, governing and institutional provisions aimed at implementing a set of penal and correctional measures applied to prisoners, depending on the individual characteristics of each, and are aimed at their conscious restoration to the social status of a full member of society and provide a real opportunity for convicts to return to an independent, generally accepted social and normative life after release from prison.
The analysis of the international experience of resocialization of convicts in places of detention showed the need to create appropriate social services, involve non-governmental, public structures or semi-state entities, whose activities should be funded and controlled by the state, and be aimed at developing and implementing specific social programs, providing social assistance, both during the period of serving a sentence and after his release, necessary for the conscious restoration of the convict in the social status of a full member of the community.
Evaluating the international experience of resocialization of convicts, we see one of the ways to solve this problem in the use of the positive experience of the penitentiary system of countries that have achieved significant results in the implementation of international standards for the treatment of convicts and their resocialization. The author substantiates the need to create and implement special educational programs for both adults and other categories of convicts, following the example of most European countries, such as Norway and the United States.
The author analyzes the genesis of legal regulation and integration ties of resocialization of prisoners in places of detention, which made it possible to establish that at different stages of transformation of the national penal system into a new European-style penitentiary system capable of actually ensuring the return of prisoners to an independent, generally accepted social and normative life in society, most of the introduced legal acts and changes, as well as a number of concepts and strategies, did not provide the expected results.
