Criminal enforcement policy of Ukraine: state and trends

Autor: V. Vasylevich
Rok vydání: 2023
Zdroj: Uzhhorod National University Herald. Series: Law. 3:216-220
ISSN: 2664-6153
2307-3322
DOI: 10.24144/2307-3322.2022.75.3.35
Popis: The article is devoted to the issues of formation and development of the criminal enforcement policy of Ukraine at the current stage of its formation as the legal system of the state. Politics reflects the principles, strategy, main directions and forms of achieving social goals facing society, its political and power structures. It is worth noting that the goal of social policy has a complex hierarchy, which depends on the nature and orientation of the activity of the state and the bodies related to the implementation of this activity. In addition, the criminal enforcement policy in Ukraine directs the activities of the state and its relevant bodies to the prevention of crimes and other offenses, because their timely prevention and termination, the realization of the responsibility of persons who committed crimes, the execution of punishment for the convicted and the achievement of its goals. At the same time, the policy in the field of execution of criminal punishments is a logical reflection of the general and criminal policy of the state, a manifestation of the state strategy for ensuring national interests and public safety, a necessary element of expressing the attitude of the state and society to crime, the possibility of fighting it, and maintaining law and order. Regulation of the norms of criminal law enforcement, norms of criminal legislation in terms of the appointment and execution of punishments are always correlated with actual changes in the types and methods of committing crimes, the general dynamics and state of crime in a certain period, modern internal and external criminological threats. As part of the criminal enforcement policy, the main directions, forms and methods of execution of punishments, the application of other measures of a criminal law nature, the provision of corrective influence on convicts, the interaction of the system of execution of punishments with other state bodies and public formations are developed. State policy in this area is multifaceted and, first of all, it defines the foundations of criminal policy, which is based on the objective laws of the development of society, the direction of activity of state and public bodies to protect the interests of the people from criminal encroachments, the implementation of measures of state coercion against persons, who committed them, as well as measures to prevent crimes. The goals and objectives of modern criminal enforcement policy are based on the international community’s provisions on the treatment of convicts, relevant international acts, and scientific achievements.
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