Optimization of the Application and Legislative Regulation of Arrest as a Measure of Criminal Legal Impact

The relevance of the study is due to the lack of implementation of the punishment in the form of arrest in law enforcement activities, which narrows the variability of the means of criminal legal influence of the state in the fight against crime and does not reveal the true potential of the declared measure of state coercion.
Purpose: to formulate proposals concerning the optimization of the application and legislative regulation of arrest as a measure of criminal legal impact.
Objectives: to investigate the legal nature of arrest in accordance with the norms of national legislation; to reveal the essence of arrest in general and arrest as a type of criminal punishment in particular; to identify the distinctive features of arrest and deprivation of liberty as isolation measures of state coercion; to summarize the results obtained.
Methodology. The methodological basis of this study is presented by the dialectical method of scientific cognition. In the course of the research, private scientific methods of cognition used in the humanities were also used, which made it possible to investigate arrest as an optimal measure of criminal legal impact.
Results. Based on the analysis of the current legislation, statistical data, theoretical research, a proposal has been formulated regarding the appointment and execution of arrest as a type of criminal punishment.
Conclusions. Arrest is an effective alternative to imprisonment as a measure of State coercion. In view of the increased severity of arrest in relation to other punishments related to the isolation of a person from society, as well as the vector of development of modern criminal policy, it seems advisable to reconsider the grounds for his appointment, excluding its implementation for the commission of crimes of small or medium gravity. It seems that the rational basis for the application of arrest is a legal fact in the form of committing a serious crime for the first time.

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