Problems of identifying criminal violence of persons deprived of liberty

The article examines issues of criminal violence in places of deprivation of liberty, which takes the legal form of a penitentiary crime. Being a type of the general concept of crime, a penitentiary crime has all its features: social danger, criminal illegality, guilt and punishability. However, these features have a certain specificity, conditioned by the nature of the illegal behavior of persons deprived of liberty. The objective of the presented research is that any intentional crimes committed by convicts in places of deprivation of liberty contain a destructive element for these places, which increases the social danger of such acts. The natural possibility of the existence of penitentiary crime (despite the efforts of the administration) in correctional institutions is a consequence of the increased danger of malicious offenders from among those deprived of liberty and an inevitable socio-psychological phenomenon — a criminal subculture. Thus, individual penitentiary crimes also cause harm to the interests of the individual, society and the state: for example, disruption of the activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society (Article 321 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation); murder of a person or his relatives in connection with the implementation of official activities by this person or the fulfillment of public duty (Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). These crimes cause damage to all means of correctional influence on convicts. They hinder the strengthening of the regime for the detention of convicts, their involvement in socially useful work, and the implementation of educational work with them. Based on the study, the authors conclude that the study of penitentiary parameters of violent crimes, which in the structure of crime in the execution of all types of criminal punishments make up on average one third, as well as the study of the personality characteristics of violent penitentiary offenders can provide invaluable assistance both in the work on the resocialization of violent criminals and in the prevention of violent criminal behavior of convicts and prisoners in correctional institutions and pretrial detention centers.