Стандарты ООН по применению мер, не связанных с лишением свободы

Abstract

The UN activities in the humanitarian sphere include the problems of combatting crime, among them such specific issues as the executing of criminal penalty, the treatment of offenders and the improvement of the penitentiary system. These issues have become traditional and constantly appear on the agenda of rations international conferences, devoted to combatting crime, [n the last decade there has appeared and actively manifested itself the trend of application of the measures, not connected with imprisonment. Before the 1990 it has been codified in the UN Standard minimal principles concerning the measures not conneced with imprisonment, which were adopted by the VIII UN Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders, and approved by the UN General Assembly (resolution 45/110). The significance of this document can hardly be overestimated. If contains a number of fundamental statements concerning the application of penalties and other measures, not connected with imprisonment, which are not known in the legislation and practice of Belarus. In the conditions of statehood development and legislation reform regarding the new socio-economic structure of society the above mentioned document can exert a substantial influence on the policy of the state in the sphere of imposing and executing of penalties and also to determine the direction of reforming of the penitentiary system. Besides, it can help to define the structure, functions and order of activities of the bodies, executing the penalties not connected with imprisonment, thus giving dynamics to the realization of regulations of legal reform in the given sphere in the Republic of Belarus.