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The purpose of the research is to reveal international experience in the correction and re-socialization of persons sentenced to deprivation of liberty. Main content. This paper analyzes articles of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine, which contain measures of encouragement applied to convicts sentenced to deprivation of liberty (imprisonment) for a certain period of time, and foreign experience of European countries and CIS countries. Measures to encourage convicts should be considered as an important component in the legal regulation of the process of execution and service of punishment; use of such measures encourages law-abiding behavior. Methodology: The methodological basis of the research is presented as comparative-legal and systematic analysis, hermeneutic method as well as methods of analysis and synthesis. Conclusions. In foreign legislation the system of various types of measures stimulating law-abiding behavior of convicted persons is clearly regulated; this system allows to systematically and consistently change conditions of serving punishment from hard ones to soft ones. This system consists of certain types of incentives; the content and essence of such incentives differ depending on whether these measures are one-time or permanent and in relation to a certain category of convicted persons.

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The article is devoted to the consideration of essence and tendencies of reforming the criminal-executive legislation of Ukraine concerning the procedure and execution and serving life imprisonment conditions. Certain debatable provisions, both theoretical and legal, concerning procedure and conditions of life service executing punishment are considered. It is proved that clarity, completeness and system-legal balance will be facilitated by the formal reproduction in the law of classification of all criminal-executive norms of Chapter 22 of the Criminal Executive Code (hereinafter–CEC) (based on a certain criterion) into norms of general and special significance, which in turn should be divided into the following subtypes. General penitentiary provisions, which determine the initial legal status of persons sentenced to life imprisonment, provide a list and features of the rights, legitimate interests, responsibilities of convicts, ways (mechanism) to comply with safe conditions of detention, etc. General penitentiary provisions, which define the basic principles for implementation of changes in detention conditions during execution and serving a sentence (essence, tasks, forms, general requirements for material grounds for application, procedural issues of progressive system implementation, definition of disciplinary system).

The relevance of this article is due to the fact that as a result of Russia's full-scale military offensive on the territory of Ukraine, there was an acute and unprecedented need for assistance to the population from international non-governmental organizations. Such assistance manifests itself in various aspects, from humanitarian to financial. That is why today it is important to get acquainted with the experience of international non-governmental medical and humanitarian organizations in Ukraine under the conditions of martial law imposed as a consequence of the military aggression by the Russian Federation, elaboration of recommendations for improvement of the legal regulation of their functioning. For this purpose, the authors utilized the methods of analysis and synthesis, the comparative law method, the method of generalization of viewpoints and research results. The article employs the doctrinal provisions of the domestic and foreign science with regard to the legal basis for the activities of international medical and humanitarian non-governmental organizations in Ukraine as well as the statistical data on the activities of public associations during the period of introduction of martial law. This study was conducted taking into account the experience of non-governmental organizations in other countries. The authors have established that during the period of the legal regime of martial law in Ukraine the leading role in providing humanitarian and medical assistance to individuals affected by the war is played by such international non-governmental organizations as Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Oxfam. These associations provide multi-vector aid: medical, humanitarian, financial, educational, etc. It has been proven that such activities exert a positive impact on the dynamics of the determinants of criminal offenses, however they require improvement and facilitation of legal regulation, since Russia's attack on Ukraine has leveled down their influence on the global security situation.