Conditional Early Release from Serving a Sentence ‒ a Subjective Right or a Legitimate Interest of the Convicted Person?
https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2022-12-3-83-93
Abstract
Relevance. The article raises a problem, the solution of which is crucial for understanding conditional early release from serving a sentence. In the modern doctrine of criminal and penal enforcement law, there has been a tendency to attribute parole to the legitimate interests of convicts and, as a result, to deny it the role of subjective law. However, such an approach contradicts not only the concepts of the essence of the categories of "subjective right" and "legitimate interest" that have developed in the general theory of law, but also the level and nature of the provision of parole guaranteed by the current Russian legislation.
The purpose of the study is to substantiate conditional early release from serving a sentence as a subjective right of convicts and to determine the boundaries of its implementation precisely as a subjective right.
Objectives: identification of essential, distinctive features of subjective right and legitimate interest; disclosure (by way of comparison) of the necessary defense as a universally recognized subjective right of any person; establishment in parole of properties identifying it as a subjective right or legitimate interest of convicts.
Methodology. When writing the work, both general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison) and private scientific, including special legal (formal legal, comparative legal) methods of cognition were used.
Results. Based on the conducted research, it was determined that conditional early release from serving a sentence reveals the features of subjective law.
Conclusion. According to the level of state recognition and legal security, conditional early release from serving a sentence is a subjective right of convicts. However, it is not absolute, individual claims of convicts, although they are associated with parole, are provided exclusively at the level of legitimate interests.
About the Author
Elena V. Kobzeva
Saratov State Law Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Sci. (Juridical), Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal and Penal Law
1 Volskaya str., Saratov 410056
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Kobzeva E.V. Conditional Early Release from Serving a Sentence ‒ a Subjective Right or a Legitimate Interest of the Convicted Person? Proceedings of Southwest State University. Series: History and Law. 2022;12(3):83-93. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2022-12-3-83-93
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