PENAL SYSTEM OF REPUBLIC OF BELARUS: STATE AND PROSPECTS
the subject of the article is the prospects of the penal system of Republic of Belarus development. The author analyzes the results of implementation of the fundamental regulatory legal act defining the main directions of legislative and law-enforcement activity of government bodies in the sphere of improvement of criminal policy of Belarus for 2011-2015 - Concepts of improvement of the system of measures of the criminal liability and an the order of their execution approved by the Decree of the President of Republic of Belarus in 2010. For the expired time the number of persons who were to be restrained almost decreased twice. At the same time the number of persons who were to be restrained in the form of house arrest increased twice and this allowed to reduce the number of persons in pre-trial detention centers and to improve objectively the detention conditions. The number of persons who are held in custody and convicted decreased more than by 30 %. The number of persons sentenced to imprisonment decreased by 40 %. The carried-out analysis allows to make a conclusion that the actions planned by the Concept are to be realized in established periods and are carried out systemically. Therefore it is reasonable to continue the work on implementation of requirements of the Concept, concentrating on: optimization of application of a measure of restraint and criminal liability of first-time offenders; preservation of due retaliatory influence for commission of serious and especially serious crimes; ensuring application of punishment in the form of imprisonment in the limits corresponding to public danger of crimes and the identity of the guilty; decrease of crime rate, including connected with evasion from serving punishments; increase of the efficiency of corrective and precautionary influence of institutes of parole.