Abstract:
З’ясовано кримінально-виконавчий і кримінологічний потенціал класифікації засуджених
як засобу запобігання злочинності в пенітенціарній сфері зарубіжних країн. Зазначено, що сучасні
нормативно-правові акти стратегічного планування у сфері реформування пенітенціарної системи
України орієнтовані на необхідність запровадження комплексних довгострокових змін відповідно
до стандартів Ради Європи. Одним із таких стандартів є забезпечення безпеки засуджених і
персоналу, що досягається системою заходів запобігання кримінальним правопорушенням у
місцях несвободи. The article clarifies the criminal and executive, criminological
potential of convict classification as a means of crime prevention in the penitentiary sphere of foreign
countries.
It is noted that modern regulatory and legal acts of strategic planning in the field of reforming
the penitentiary system of Ukraine are focused on the need to introduce comprehensive long-term
changes in accordance with the standards of the Council of Europe. One of these standards is ensuring the
safety of convicts and penitentiary personnel, which is achieved by the system of measures to prevent
criminal offenses in places of confinement.
Among general social measures to prevent criminality in the penitentiary sphere of foreign
countries, an important place is assigned to the classification of convicts.
It is concluded that the classification of convicts in foreign countries performs not only criminal and
enforcement functions (creating favorable conditions for achieving the goal of punishment; promoting the
effective implementation of the principle of differentiation and individualization of the execution of
punishments, the application of a progressive system; the distribution and placement of convicts in penal
institutions), but and acts as an effective general social measure, creating effective preconditions for the
prevention of criminal offenses in places of confinement at the special and criminological, victimological levels.
The approaches available in foreign penitentiary practice deserve attention as to assessing the
degree of public danger of convicts, effective planning of the process of execution/serving of punishment
and individual preventive work with them, but they should not be perceived unambiguously (in particular,
in terms of creating one institution for the entire state for a certain categories of convicts), since in this
way the territorial principle of execution/serving of punishment may be violated. Therefore, if we take
into account the analyzed foreign approaches to the classification of convicts in the conditions of
reforming the penitentiary system of Ukraine, it is appropriate to talk about the creation of appropriate
institutions on an interregional basis. At the same time, it will not be a violation of international
penitentiary standards if work with different categories of convicts (prisoners) is carried out in different
institutions or different departments (sectors, structural divisions) of the same institution.
