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

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.