Content of public control in the sphere of execution of punishments of Ukraine

Abstract

The article defines the nature, content and state of public control in the sphere of punishment of Ukraine, as well as identifies the most significant problems of its implementation in practice and develops some scientifically grounded measures aimed at improving the legal mechanism on these issues.

It would seem, in Ukraine the appropriate legal mechanism for implementation of public control in the sphere of execution of punishments is created. However, as showed results of this scientific research, in practice these questions it is not fully corresponded to the forms and types of activity of the public, stated above with performance and serving of criminal penalties.

Proceeding from it, the main objective of this scientific article is development of evidence-based actions, «the relation to with» clearings of contents and essence of public control in the sphere of execution of punishments and also development on this basis of appropriate ways that concern improvement of a legal mechanism on these questions.

It should be noted that at present public control in the sphere of execution of sentences is at a low regulatory level, and those potential opportunities, which are enshrined in the laws concerning in general civil control over the law enforcement system, are hardly realized in real criminal-law relations. All this, in the end, does not allow to identify the deep determinants that are associated with the formation of unlawful behavior of convicts while serving criminal sentences, on the one hand, as well as the psychology of actions of staff and penal institutions in such situations and making adequate decisions when this, on the other hand.