SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE EXECUTION AND SERVING OF THE SENTENCE IN THE FORM OF CONFINEMENT IN A DISCIPLINARY MILITARY UNIT
Introduction: Presently significant changes take place in society including the transformation of the social role of military personnel. The evolution of modern external and internal threats requires rethinking here included issues of serving sentences by the category of persons serving sentences in the form of detention in a disciplinary military unit. Aim: to execute comprehensive analysis of modern rules for the execution and serving of sentences in the form of confinement in a disciplinary military unit. Methodological base of the research presented by a set of methods of scientific knowledge among which the methods of historicism, systematic and comparative legal method. Results: Based on the analysis, it was found that the legal regulation of the processes of execution and serving of the confinement in a disciplinary military unit has a number of special features: lack of a single legal act defining the entire range of aspects of the implementation of this punishment; regulation of the rules not only by criminal and penal enforcement legislation but also by legal acts of a different nature; modernization previously existing corresponding legal regulations. Conclusions: The study revealed that in modern conditions there is a negative dynamics of crimes committed by military personnel and assigned military punishments, in particular in the form of detention in a disciplinary military unit. The scope of legal restrictions imposed on a convicted serviceman in a disciplinary military unit has been clarified, taking into account the criminal, penal enforcement legislation and regulatory documents that determine the issues of military service