LEGAL MEASURES TO PREVENT PERSONS SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FROM COMMITTING CRIMES INVOLVING ILLICIT TRAFFICKING NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES (based on the materials of the South Ural region)

Authors

  • Tatyana Gennadievna Goloschapova Author
  • Evgeny Vladimirovich Goloschapov Author

Abstract

This article deals with the legal measures to prevent persons convicted to imprisonment from wrongful acts concerning both non-medical use and distribution of drugs and psychotropic substances. Taking into account the specific nature of penitentiary facilities (based on the materials of the South Ural region, namely the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Orenburg regions) it proposes a number of legal measures which can boost the anti-drug preventive work with the prisoners in order to neutralize the drug situation in prisons. Some of them are lowering the age of criminal liability under Articles 228 and 2281 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, applying as compulsory medical measures appropriate ambulatory medical drug treatment for prisoners with problems of drug addiction, and so on. 

Author Biographies

  • Tatyana Gennadievna Goloschapova
    candidate of philological sciences, Associate Professor, training and management, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
  • Evgeny Vladimirovich Goloschapov
    Candidate of Law, Chief Operations Officer of the Main Directorate of Federal Service for Fulfilment of Punishments of Russia in Chelyabinsk region, lieutenant colonel of the internal service, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Published

2017-09-04

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2017): Вестник Южно-Уральского государственного университета. Серия Право.

Section

Problems and Questions of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice