The place and the role of operational search activities in foreign penal practice
https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-77-86
Abstract
Based on the analysis of the current state of the operational-search support for serving a criminal sentence in the Russian Federation, the article analyzes the existing approaches in foreign penitentiary practice to the knowledge of the unlawful behavior of prisoners. The significance of specific means and methods of operational-search activity in solving socially useful tasks of counteracting penitentiary crime is stated. Based on a number of factors, the analysis of official statistics indicating the concentration of far from the best part of inmates, it is concluded that there are problematic issues, including the tasks of preventing and preventing terrorism and extremist manifestations, identifying and eliminating the causes and conditions that contribute to them. The author emphasizes the importance of one of the main means of combating crime – operational-search activities carried out by authorized state bodies within their competence, while focusing on special measures.
Based on the results of the ongoing research, the essence and content of the operational-search support for the process of ensuring the serving of a criminal sentence in the form of imprisonment as an independent organizational and tactical form are considered, a change in the nature of security threats is stated, requiring the search for integrated approaches to countering them. It is concluded that it is necessary to improve the organization and legal regulation of operational-search activities in penal system. The possibilities of systematic collection of operationally significant information in solving urgent problems in foreign penal practice are analyzed. The importance of information and analytical support for operational-search activities in identifying and suppressing potential threats by analyzing incoming operational information and reducing uncertainty in managerial decision-making is emphasized.
About the Author
M. A. Kaluzhina
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina A. Kaluzhina, Dr. of Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminalistics and Legal Informatics; Leading Researcher of the Federal Research Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
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Author ID: 57202003524
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Kaluzhina M.A. The place and the role of operational search activities in foreign penal practice. Legal Bulletin of the Kuban State University. 2022;(2):77-86. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-2-77-86
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