SYSTEMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PROBATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Introduction. It is argued that an adequate rebuff to the aggression of the Russian Federation is possible only if all state institutions work effectively. Under these conditions, law enforcement activities, including the sphere of probation, acquire particular importance. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to determine the systemic properties and classification characteristics of the probation system in Ukraine. Results. The understanding of the domestic probation system as a material, social, artificial, open, multifunctional, probabilistic, and purposeful system is substantiated. Article 4 of the Law of Ukraine “On Probation” establishes the purpose of probation — ensuring the safety of society. The purpose of the system is defined as the correction of convicted persons, preventing them from committing repeated criminal offenses and providing the court with information characterizing the accused. The functions of the probation system can be described as the methods of activity provided for in Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On Probation”: execution of sentences not related to deprivation of liberty; supervision of those sentenced to sentences in the form of deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities, community service, correctional labor, persons whose punishment in the form of restriction of liberty or imprisonment for a certain period has been replaced by a punishment in the form of community service or correctional labor, persons released from serving a sentence on probation, pregnant women and women with children under the age of three, persons sentenced to probationary supervision and persons whose sentence of restriction of liberty or imprisonment for a certain period of time has been replaced by a sentence of probationary supervision. Prospects. The data presented in the article should be taken into account in future theoretical research and practical activities.