Improving crime prevention in correctional institutions

Preventive measures are one of the main areas of crime prevention in the modern world. Effective investigation of criminal acts has a positive effect on the fight against crime in general. In this context, crime prevention among the most vulnerable categories of the population is of particular importance. Such persons include citizens in correctional institutions. Penitentiary crime and its development is a serious problem not only for correctional institutions, but also for Russian society as a whole. As a rule, persons who commit crimes while serving their sentences retain these unlawful intentions after release. The prevalence of unlawful behavior in the penitentiary system is the result of the improvement in criminal activity in Russia as a whole. The purpose of writing a research paper is to analyze the current crime prevention mechanisms in Russian correctional institutions, identify existing problems and determine priority ways to solve them. The author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to improve preventive activities in relation to crimes committed in correctional institutions, taking into account the identified vulnerabilities of the Russian penal system and the dynamism of the development of criminal communities. Attention is focused on the importance of a high level of professional knowledge and skills of employees of correctional institutions and the need for engineering and technical support of the process of serving sentences by convicts.

penitentiary crime, crime prevention, preventive and preventive activity, penal system, correctional institutions