The main idea of the authors is that the factors reducing the level of criminogenic threats in the society include the work of governmental and public organizations aimed at the resocialization of certain categories of people. The authors present a classification of people in need of resocialization and single out specific categories of those of them who pose a potential threat to law and order, and who are most difficult to resocialize, to be prevented from repeat involvement in criminal activities. In this article, resocialization is understood as a targeted impact on persons released from places of incarceration, as well as those having lawbreaking mentality and dangerous, potentially criminogenic and harmful habits (addictions) with the purpose of involving them in normal life as full members of the society. Using the experience of the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors demonstrate a wide range of possible approaches to resocialization programs, and give an overview of various organizational forms and methods of working with people demonstrating anti-social mindset in the past or deviant behavior in the present. They highlight the prevention measures used for juveniles and trace the connections between the reduction in the crime level and the application of measures to resocialize delinquent groups or other categories of people who pose a potential threat to law and order. The authors also draw attention to the fact that volunteer participation of healthy members of society in resocialization contributes to the success of this work, while state-organized measures alone cannot ensure the reformation and rehabilitation of morally sick persons. The authors believe that studying international experience could be useful both for Russian research and for practical work in the sphere of preventing legal offences in general and repeat crimes in particular.

The Vietnamese government has set the task of creating a prosperous people and a strong, democratic society, a just and civilized country. This task cannot be achieved without a sound domestic policy that includes the fight against anti-social phenomena such as domestic drunkenness, chronic alcoholism, and drug addiction as an essential component, which create the ground for criminogenic behavior. The Objective of the study is to study the basic acts of Vietnamese legislation on the regulation of the prevention of deviant behavior among alcoholics and drug addicts and the resocialization of persons who committed crimes and are in prison, as well as those released from them. The general methodological basis is represented by the dialectical method, which allowed studying the research object in development to establish the corresponding cause-and-effect relationships. The authors used general scientific methods, including analysis and synthesis, induction, and deduction methods, to obtain reliable and scientifically significant results. Attention is drawn to the specific methods of resocialization combined with methadone treatment for drug addicts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the conditions and regime of such treatment, and specific individuals’ responsibilities. In the twenty-first century, there are gradual changes in the worldview of the political leadership and the legal practice of Vietnam concerning people with addictions that can be treated and corrected. This has led to the adoption of evidence-based resocialization methods, particularly the use of methadone substitution therapy for drug addicts. Russian scientists are actively engaged in the problem of resocialization in the context of Russian criminal law issues. This article is the first to raise the issue of the Vietnamese approach, information about which is taken from sources in the Vietnamese language.