Persons convicted for economic crimes and official misconduct in detention facilities: a need for new approaches.

  • Valeriy Nikolaevich Belik Department of ‘Political Science and Mass Communications’, Federal State Educational Budgetary Institution of Higher Education "Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation"
  • Vyacheslav Ivanovich Seliverstov Education Center ‘Problems of Penal-Executive Law’, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46377/dilemas.v32i1.2063
Keywords: convicted person, deprivation of liberty, economic crimes, official misconduct, creating a scientific model of serving a sentence in the form of imprisonment

Abstract

This article focuses on a scientific project dealing with serving a criminal sentence in the form of deprivation of liberty after being convicted for economic crimes in the field of business and/or malfeasance in office. It analyzes the relevance of developing a scientific model of imprisonment for the above categories of criminals, possible ways of differentiating prison sentences based on convicts’ criminological and socio-demographic characteristics. 

References

Antonyan Yu. M. (2017) What does the court actually sentence a person to when meting out a prison sentence? // III International Penitentiary Forum “Crime, Punishment, Correction” (On the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the Penal Enforcement Code, Russian Federation): Collection of talking points and reports of the conference participants (Ryazan, November 21– 23, 2017). Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Volume 1.

Komarov, S. A. (2019) The general theory of state and law: a textbook. 9th ed. Moscow: Yurayt Publishing House. 506 p. (Series: Bachelor and master. Academic course.) (In Russian).

Russia May Have Private Prisons for Businessmen (2017); Do you Need Private Prisons in Russia: Businessmen Offered Special Detention Facilities. http://www.deloros.ru/nuzhny-li-chastnye-tyurmy-v-rossii.html

Second research project of the Research and Education Center set up in December 2015. The first project was carried out in 2016 to develop a scientific and theoretical model for the General part of the Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation. See: The General Part of the New Penal Enforcement Code of the Russian Federation: Results and Substantiations of Theoretical Modeling, edited by Professor Dr. V.I. Seliverstov. Jurisprudence Publishing House 2017. 320 p.

Smirnov L.B. Criminological Problems of Criminal Punishment in the Form of Imprisonment: Amending Their Goal-Setting, Principles and Implementation. The access date is March 20, 2017. http://www.criminologyclub.ru/home/3-last-sessions/297-2017-03-19-12-26-26.html

Published
2020-01-01
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Year VII, Publication no.2, January 2020
Section
Artículos