THE MAIN DIRECTIONS, FORMS AND METHODS OF STRENGTHENING SERVICE DISCIPLINE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION AMONG STAFF OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE FEDERAL PENAL SERVICE OF RUSSIA (THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FEDERAL PENAL SERVICE ACADEMY OF RUSSIA)
The article describes the main directions of discipline strengthening among staff of educational institutions preventing violations of principles and requirements of law, and illustrates definite forms and methods used by «subjects of educational influence» as well. The research methodology is based on traditional scientific knowledge of processes and phenomena in their practical interpretation. The author makes use of a dialectics method (the method of development), combining general scientific (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, etc.) and special scientific methods (systematic and comprehensive approaches). At present various aspects of discipline strengthening and compliance with the rule of law in civil service are being increasingly developed, however they are not applied to the full extent in relation to military service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penal Service of Russia. The purpose of all researches pertaining to this issue is to improve service efficiency, providing proper staff for the departments of the Federal Penal Service of Russia. The ultimate goal of all works pertaining to this problem is to increase effectiveness of service, mainly from the viewpoint of improving approaches to proper staffing of structural units of the Federal Penal Service. There exist a number of thesis work devoted to general issues of improving management of law enforcement agencies (for instance, V. M. Anisimkov «Reform of the system managing bodies executing punishment in the form of imprisonment (theory, the mechanism of realization)», 1994; V. M. Morozov «State policy in reforming the Russian law-enforcement personnel - a social problem and the most important factor for stabilization of society», 1994). The issue under discussion was touched upon more profoundly by some other researchers in scientific articles, monographs and applied publications (M. Bulanzhe, I. Veletminsky, N. A.Volgin, L. Gaukhman, V. I. Gladkikh, N. I. Dorokhov), but was mostly done from the point of view of the civil service and other law enforcement agencies, discounting characteristic features of the penal system. The legal framework of the research is the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the penal legislation of the Russian Federation, normative legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation, decisions and orders of the Government of the Russian Federation, international regulations and documents, as well statistics reporting of the Federal Penal Service and international legal documents ratified by the Russian Federation. The practical value of the material lies in possibility to use the offered forms and methods of educational work tested in the Academy of the Federal Penal Service of Russia by other structural educational units. Namely, the author gives the detailed analysis and classification of the existing directions of strengthening service discipline in departmental educational institutions and systematizes them. Taking into account general experience of all structural units of the Academy of Law and Management, which is the leading educational center of the Federal Penal Service of Russia - the author describes tactical bases for realization the above mentioned directions, forms and methods. Finally the author offers specific tools for further development of strengthening service discipline and law as a fundamental direction of educational work with staff.