Alternatives to Real Imprisonment as a Kind Criminal Punishment

Abstract

Alternatives to criminal punishment in the form of real imprisonment in Russia are considered. On the basis of official data of open judicial statistics, the practice of applying certain measures of a criminal nature is analyzed, the conclusion is made that there are no real alternatives to this type of punishment in the domestic criminal legislation the quantitative and qualitative indicators characterizing convicts, the provision on the limited possibilities of the criminal law and the practice of its application in significantly reducing the number of actually deprived of liberty is updated. It is concluded that it is necessary to sound the alarm about the quantitative indicators of those actually deprived of liberty, but only when this measure of a criminal nature will, firstly, be assigned to a qualitatively different contingent of persons who have committed a crime than today, and, secondly, be executed in conditions other than today. From this point of view, we see a reduction in the number of people sentenced to imprisonment in modern conditions only in one case: at the expense of persons convicted of committing minor crimes for the first time. The number of such persons is very small.