Challenges to Use Alternative Jail Sentences to Promote Prevention of Crime

Abstract

The issue of crime prevention has always been recognized one of the most pressing problems of human life, society and the state at the national, regional and international level.

There may arise a question "How do the penalties associated with isolation from society faces with the above principle?" for

a) despite the fact that the purpose of punishment is all possible adaptation of the person to life in a normal society, the punishment of imprisonment completely separates the individual from society;

b) despite the fact that the purpose of punishment is rehabilitation of criminal offenders, prevent the commission of these and others of new crimes, the punishment of imprisonment involves these people to new groups of criminals, which, ultimately, makes it possible to exchange experiences of crime;

c) despite the fact that the purpose of punishment is the adaptation of the perpetrators of crimes to life in socially useful activities, labor, the sentence of imprisonment dooms him to conditions very far from a free life, as a result, after release of a person raises a number of fairly complex problems of adaptation (for example, search for suitable employment, development of family, housing, to prevent the abuse of alcohol, etc.), in other words, it is a punishment implies passivity lifestyle former convict.

It is established that more than half, or rather 60-70% of the prisoners who are serving a sentence of imprisonment, were convicted again or were repeat offenders, i.e. persons who have previously been sentenced to criminal punishment.