Offenses by convicts in youth detention centers: Theoretical and legal analysis

Abstract

Offenses of convicts serving sentences in youth detention centers are a socially dangerous social phenomenon that (1) is expressed in the form of action or inaction, (2) exists in a certain time period on the territory of the center or an adjacent territory where regime requirements are established, (3) violates the provisions of legal norms and rules of conduct established by the laws of the Russian Federation, (4) aims to satisfy personal or group interests or evade the fulfillment of legal requirements imposed on convicts by the administration of youth detention centers. Offenses committed in centers, on the basis of their public danger, are divided into crimes (criminal) and misdemeanors (disciplinary, administrative, civil law, material); on the basis of the number of subjects who committed them into individual and group. Of interest both in theoretical terms and for practical activities are offenses with an increased level of public danger and frequent in youth detention centers, these are group crimes and group violations of the established procedure for serving sentences committed in centers. These types of offenses should be given special attention both in the development of their theoretical foundations and the formation of practical measures aimed at preventing them.