The procedure for placing minors in educational institutions in the post-soviet states: a comparative legal analysis

• Vereschagina A.V.

  A.V. Vereschagina . Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

• Lapshina Yu.V.

  Yu.V. Lapshina. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

The article examines the legal nature of the exemption of a minor from punishment with placement in a special educational institution of a closed type in the post-Soviet states, and a comparative legal analysis of the legislation of the states regulating the procedure
in question. The study will identify factors that, in our opinion, impede the application of the release of minors from punishment by placement in an educational institution and suggest ways to overcome them. The ultimate goal of the work is to develop, taking into account foreign experience, proposals for amending the criminal law of the Russian Federation related to the placement
of a minor in a special educational institution of a closed type. The object of the research is social relations arising from the placement of minors in special educational institutions. The subject of the research is the norms of the criminal law, the criminal procedure law
of the countries of the post-Soviet space concerning criminal liability and the release of minors from it. In preparing the work, the legislation of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Estonia was studied, the legal doctrine was used.
Keywords:  minors,  criminal  liability,  compulsory  educational  measures,  exemption  from  
punishment.