THE MASCULINE IDENTITY OF JUVENILES, THE MASCULINE IDENTITY OF JUVENILES SERVING PRISON SENTENCES: STATEMENT OF THE ISSUE, SUBSTANTIVE CHARACTERISTICS AND PROSPECTS OF CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE REGULATION
The subject of the study is the manifestation and content of the masculine identity of juvenile convicts serving a criminal sentence of imprisonment. The methodology predominantly encompasses formal-logical analysis of legal norms, hermeneutic study and comparative content analysis of theoretical and empirical studies carried out by some foreign scientists. The problems of gender self-identification of young people held in places of incarceration are considered. As a result, it substantiates the thesis that male masculine self-identification in correctional facilities can actually counteract the control of their behavior by the administration. The scope of the results implies optimization of the penal-executive regulation of gender identity of juveniles held in educational colonies. The conclusion about the need to implement the concept of "soft law" in the mechanism of educational and preventive impact is made, which should contribute to the acquisition of the necessary set of personal communicative and social competences and cultural and moral qualities of inmates.