Criminal situation in the penal system of the Russian Federation and preventive measures taken by the bodies and institutions of the system to change it
Subject/topic. Criminal situation in the penal system of the Russian Federation and preventive measures taken by the bodies and institutions of the system to change it. Goals/objectives. In the scientiﬁc community of specialists who study the problems of penitentiary crime, there is a widespread opinion that the oﬃcial statistics describing crime in the location of correctional institutions of the penal system of the Russian Federation do not reﬂect the real state of such crime. On the one hand, this information is completely objectively distorted by the high degree of latency of crimes among convicts, on the other hand, the criminality of correctional personnel and other persons who commit crimes in the location of correctional institutions is not fully taken into account and is often revealed during departmental inspections and the study of the real situation by the supervisory authorities on complaints of convicts and their relatives. In addition, it is planned to analyze the measures taken by the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to counteract penitentiary crime. An important component of this type of crime is the corruption component. Methodology. An analyses of statistical information of penitentiary crimes, both conﬁrmed by the oﬃ cial statistics and latent but revealed in the process of research by scientists, as well as information available from the media about the facts of speciﬁc criminal manifestations of the penal system. Conclusion. The real level of crimes committed in correctional institutions for a variety of reasons.