Criminal procedural and criminal executive legal relations functioning at the initial stage of execution and serving of criminal sentences

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems and features of the legal regulation of criminal procedural legal relations arising, changing or terminating at the initial stage of execution and serving of criminal sentences. The paper deals with the legal relations functioning within the boundaries determined by the moment when the court’s conviction comes into legal force and the beginning of the actual execution of the criminal punishment (measure) by the authorized institution. In the course of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that for the normal development of criminal procedural legal relations and the timely emergence of general and specific criminal-executive legal ties at the initial stage of execution and serving of criminal sentences, it is necessary: to solve problematic issues arising at the stage of the entry into force of the court’s conviction and its appeal for execution. For example, it is proposed to fix in the Criminal Procedure Code the fact that only the person in respect of whom the conviction of the court has entered into legal force will be a convict, which will contribute to the elimination of problems related to the determination of the legal status of persons in respect of whom the accused the court verdict has not entered into legal force; to make changes in terms of improving the legal status of convicts before they are sent from the pre-trial detention center to prison. For example, it is necessary to provide an opportunity for a convict to have a meeting not only with shy people, but also with other persons; to exclude from the criminal procedural and criminal executive legislation duplicating norms that may differ in structure and create problems for the legislator. Empirical material was collected on the basis of educational institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.