Problems of Using a Single Concept of Penitentiary Crime in Improving the Regulatory and Legal Regulation of the Penal Enforcement System of the Russian Federation

Relevance. In this article, an attempt is made to consider the problematic issues of the implementation of the directions of the penal enforcement policy to improve the regulatory and legal regulation of the penal enforcement system of the Russian Federation in the absence of a unified scientific approach to determining the content of the concept of penitentiary crime, and a comparative analysis of the main approaches to understanding the nature of penitentiary crime is carried out. The peculiarity of the presented research is to clarify with the help of the concept of penitentiary criminality the processes of ongoing changes in the penal system. The author proposes a new definition of penitentiary crime – based on an assessment of the current criminogenic situation in places of serving sentences. The purpose – to develop a model of a unified approach to understanding the definition of "penitentiary crime".
Objectives. On the basis of the materials of criminological research, as well as criminal law practice, to formulate a definition of "penitentiary crime", which, in turn, would correspond to the current criminogenic situation in the penal system.
Methodology. The methodological basis of the study was made up of general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition, on the basis of which an attempt was made to formulate a single concept of penitentiary crime.
Results. A new definition of penitentiary crime is proposed – based on an assessment of the current criminogenic situation in places of serving sentences.
Conclusin. Penitentiary criminality is a set of acts aimed at violating the regime of detention in penal institutions by persons associated with territorial restriction of freedom of movement and conviction by a court, as well as with criminal acts of persons who should protect this regime.

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