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Uvarov I.A. Prevention of penitentiary criminal behavior of minors serving sentences in educational colonies. Journal of Social Policy, Population Preservation and Reproductivity. 2025; 4(4). Available at: https://spnjournal.ru/PDF/01SPN425.pdf (in Russian).

Prevention of penitentiary criminal behavior of minors serving sentences in educational colonies

Uvarov Igor Alekseevich
Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Stavropol, Russia
Nevinnomyssk State Institute of Humanities and Technology, Nevinnomyssk, Russia
E-mail: uvarov.igor@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-7505
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=456707

Abstract. The problems of qualitative assessment of the behavior of juvenile prisoners in custody have traditionally been in the field of sociological and criminological science. Depending on how the process of correcting juvenile convicts is organized, his further development as a law-abiding person also depends. At the same time, experts have recorded the presence in educational colonies of the facts of the commission of new illegal acts by juvenile convicts serving in them. In penitentiary criminology and the corresponding section of sociology, there is a stable idea that such behavior of juvenile convicts should be considered as a separate part of the «general penitentiary crime». Moreover, the authors often exclude those specific features that are inherent not only to persons serving sentences in educational colonies, but also the nature of the conditions in which this type of punishment is implemented. As a rule, the authors rely on general criminological approaches when considering the criminal behavior of minors in educational colonies. According to the author of the proposed article, in assessing such manifestations, it is worth considering two independent groups of factors: the age of the convicts and the specific conditions of isolation from society. Unlike other age categories of persons serving sentences of imprisonment, minors are less likely to commit crimes, and about the same number commit violations of the established procedure for serving sentences. The author of the article considers this situation as a kind of paradox due to the fact that, unlike other categories of convicts, the majority of those convicted of serious and especially serious crimes are concentrated in the educational colony.

Keywords: educational colony; juvenile convicts; deprivation of liberty in relation to minors; juvenile delinquency; serving sentences by minors; penitentiary criminality; criminal behavior of juvenile convicts; penitentiary prevention

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