Elements of the system of criminal punishment: legislative issues of design and practical implementation
This article discusses some of the types of criminal punishments, representing individual elements of the system of punishments, in terms of their legal structure and practical implementation. The legal structure of individual elements of the penal system allows to establish the fact that some of them can be regarded not as a punishment species and their subspecies or as a generic term with respect to several types of punishments. The article also examines the relationship types of criminal punishments, as the elements of the system, at both the legislative consolidation, and in the practical application. Analysis of statistics on sentencing and other measures of criminal-nature allows us to conclude that the emergence of new types of punishments or legislative changes in the content of the order and conditions of their execution implies certain innovations in the legal regulation of related types of criminal punishments, and these changes will inevitably begin have an impact on their practical implementation.