THE ROLE OF CONSULTATION IN THE REFORM OF ROMANIAN PENITENTIARY SYSTEM

This article analyses the consultation process and its role in reforming the Romanian penitentiary system. Nowaday, the consultation process is considered an area where innovation and new approaches are most in evidence, involving new groups often ignored. The benefits of consultation are increasingly acknowledged, because it allows the involvement of many stakeholders. In the second part of the paper we analyzed the public consultation practice in Romania, emphasising the necessity of improving the consultation process and the social dialogue by creating a mechanism and developing practices that involve people interested in the consultation process. At the end of the article we have shown the key role of consultation in identifying the penitentiary system issues by means of a questionnaire distributed to the employees and prisoners of the National Penitentiary Agency. At the end, the issues identified allowed us to show the main reform directions in the Romanian penitentiary system.consultation process, decisional transparency, respect for fundamental rights of the individual

Issues of Interaction of Penitentiary Agencies and Institutions with the Departments on Combating Crime in Ukraine and Poland

Bailov, A. V. Issues of Interaction of Penitentiary Agencies and Institutions with the Departments onCombating Crime in Ukraine and Poland [Електронний ресурс] / Anton V. Bailov, Ivan O. Romanchuk // Журнал східноєвропейського права. – 2017. – № 38. – С. 5-11. – Режим доступу: http://easternlaw.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/romanchuk_bailov_38.pdfУ статті аналізуються питання взаємодії пенітенціарних органів та установ з іншими правоохоронними органами України та Польщі. Автори вказують, що боротьба зі злочинністю є спільною метою всіх правоохоронних органів, яка досягається тільки шляхом взаємодії останніх один з одним. Визначено форми взаємодії пенітенціарних органів та установ з підрозділами по боротьбі зі злочинністю в Україні та Польщі. Автори виконали порівняльний аналіз законодавства обох країн з цього питання і розробили деякі пропозиції щодо його удосконалення.The issues of interaction of penitentiary agencies and institutions with other law enforcement agencies in Ukraine and Poland have been analyzed in the article. The authors point out that crime combating is the common objective of all law enforcement agencies, which is achieved only by the way of interaction of the latter between each other. Forms of interaction of penitentiary agencies and institutions with the departments on combating crime in Ukraine and Poland have been determined. The authors have accomplished the comparative analysis of the legislation of both countries regarding this issue and has elaborated some propositions on its improvement. The authors emphasize that crime combating is one of the most important components of functioning and development of any state; it is an instrument that assists the society to be steadily developed and to be secured. Considering stated above we can confirm that fighting (combating) against crime is one of the main overall objectives of law enforcement agencies in the state. Therefore, the activities of all law enforcement agencies along with direct functions provided by the legislation are somehow reduced to one common objective – combating crime. This is also related to penitentiary agencies and institutions that are law enforcement agencies as well. To analyze the processes of interaction of penitentiary agencies and institutions with the departments on combating crime in Ukraine and Poland the authors consider it necessary to determine what kind of law enforcement agencies operate in both countries and what system of penitentiary agencies and institutions is functioning in these countries. Therefore, the issues of interaction of penitentiary agencies and institutions with other law enforcement agencies in Ukraine and Poland have been analyzed in the article. The authors point out that crime combating as the common objective of all law enforcement agencies is achieved only by the way of the interaction of the latter between each other. Forms of interaction of penitentiary agencies and institutions with the departments on combating crime in Ukraine and Poland have been determined. The authors have accomplished the comparative analysis of the legislation of both countries regarding this issue and has elaborated some propositions on its improvement.В статье анализируются вопросы взаимодействия пенитенциарных органов и учреждений с другими правоохранительными органами Украины и Польши. Авторы указывают, что борьба с преступностью является общей целью всех правоохранительных органов, которая достигается только путем взаимодействия последних друг с другом. Определены формы взаимодействия пенитенциарных органов и учреждений с подразделениями по борьбе с преступностью в Украине и Польше. Авторы выполнили сравнительный анализ законодательства обеих стран по этому вопросу и разработали некоторые предложения по его усовершенствованию

Criminological analysis of the draft of the Law of Ukraine “On the Penitentiary system”

Орлов Ю. В. Кримінологічний аналіз проекту закону України "Про пенітенціарну систему" / Ю. В. Орлов // Право і безпека. – 2017. – № 1 (64). – С. 68-73.Орлов Ю. В. "Кримінологічний аналіз проекту закону України "Про пенітенціарну систему"." Право і Безпека 1 (2017): 68-73.Orlov, Yu.V. (2017), “Criminological analysis of the draft of the Law of Ukraine «On the Penitentiary System»” [“Kryminolohichnyi analiz proektu zakonu Ukrainy «Pro penitentsiarnu systemu»”], Pravo i Bezpeka, No. 1, pp. 68–73.У процесі кримінологічному аналізу положень проекту закону України «Про пенітенціарну систему» виявлено дві групи його недоліків – концептуального і техніко-юридичного характеру, надано їх опис та обґрунтування. Визначено шляхи вдосконалення законопроекту через усунення виявлених недоліків. Запропоновано закріпити в цьому законопроекті поняття пенітенціарної системи, під якою можливо розуміти цілісну, керовану систему державних органів та установ, що забезпечують формування і реалізацію державної політики у сфері виконання покарань, здійснення пробації.The article’s objective is to detect, describe and explain the shortcomings of the draft of the Law of Ukraine “On the Penitentiary System” in terms of the predictable parameters of its criminological efficiency. A number of shortcomings of the draft of the Law of Ukraine “On the Penitentiary System” has been revealed in the combination of criminological, penal legal principles of scientific evaluation of the reasonableness and appropriateness of model regulations, accuracy of system and legal relations and other elements of theoretical and legal model of legal regulation of relations in the sphere of functioning of the penitentiary system. These shortcomings were divided into two groups – of the conceptual, technical and legal nature. The author has emphasized on the uncertainty of the main component of the object of legal regulation – the penitentiary system. The latter has been offered to be perceived as an integrated, manageable system of state agencies and institutions that provide the formation and realization of the state policy in the field of the execution of sentences, probation implementation. To ensure continuity, stability and adaptability of the functioning of the penitentiary system the author has suggested to amend p. 1 of the Art. 5 of the draft of the Law “On the Penitentiary System” with the paragraph 3 as follows: “Higher Educational Institutions with Specific Terms of Training, which Realize the Training of the Penitentiary System Personnel According to the State Order”. To reorient the penitentiary system for the service model that best meets the standards of a liberal society and democratic country, transparency and social orientation of the latter, the author has offered to determine and develop the category of “the penitentiary service”. The author has formulated the model of the appropriate standard for the consolidation in the draft of the Law of Ukraine “On the Penitentiary System”, namely: The Penitentiary Service – is the measure or set of measures carried out by the penitentiary institutions (their officials) aimed at strengthening legal awareness in the society through the non-repressive impact on prisoners in order of their correction, resocialization. The penitentiary services are provided in the manner, in terms and forms prescribed by the current legislation for the implementation of appropriate types of penalties, as well as taking the measures of probation”.В процессе криминологического анализа положений проекта закона Украины «О пенитенциарной системе» выявлено две группы его недостатков – концептуального и техникоюридического характера, дано их описание и обоснование. Определены пути усовершенствования законопроекта устранением выявленных недостатков. Предложено закрепить в этом законопроекте понятие пенитенциарной системы, под которой возможно понимать целостную, управляемую систему государственных органов и учреждений, обеспечивающих формирование и реализацию государственной политики в сфере исполнения наказаний, осуществления пробации

Democracy, Prison, and Public Safety Realignment: Renewing Our Imagination

The American carceral condition has waged a 200-year-old struggle where the lives of the guilty, the innocent, and the victimized have taken center stage in a debate centered on rehabilitation, reformation, and revenge. The drama has undergone a number of revisions from great scholarly authors, multidisciplinary intellectuals, and literary muses. Despite a number of new renderings, the central themes of the American prison have remained constant, and just as there have been builders of prisons, there have been forces intent on their destruction. The current state of the American carceral condition has burgeoned since the neoliberal political and economic shift began in 1980. The State of California enjoys a political reputation as a socially liberal blue state, yet it is one of the national leaders in prison expansion, penal conservatism, and punitive excess. In 2011, California began the prison realignment system that includes sentencing restructuring and housing long- term felons in local county jails, thus shifting the financial burden and supervised release of inmates to local county Sheriff’s offices. The realignment is but one layer of the state’s response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that California prisons violated the Eighth Amendment, in part, to overcrowding. The system is too young to reach definitive conclusions, but is at a crossroads. Either realignment will serve as another model for prison reformation and possibly prison abolition, or it will extend the carceral reach of the state into “free” space, essentially eliminating the wall, both literally and figuratively, that separates free souls from those held captive

'Not worse than other girls': the convent-based rehabilitation of fallen women in Victorian Britain

Focuses on the convent-based rehabilitation of fallen women in Victorian Britain. Penitentiaries for sexually and morally outcast females; Cultural issues; Description of penitentiary work; Sexually transgressive penitents; Cases; Category of fallen women; Typical life of a fallen servant