Author

PETROV V.V.

Title of article

INSTITUTIONSEXECUTINGISOLATIONFROMSOCIETY:
TERMINOLOGY ISSUES

Section

Section 5. Penitentiary system

Issue, year

2 (48) 2019

Abstract

The problems of the correct use of terms when making normative legal acts are topical for various branches of law. In this article these problems are considered on the example of regulating the system of institutions that implement isolation from the society. According to the
author of the article’s opinion, simultaneous existence of different terms denoting the same concept in the same laws is unacceptable, since it negatively affects the interpretation of legal norms and their application. The current situation is explained by the fact that the draft regulatory legal acts were developed at different time. At the same time, the draft lawmakers did not always compare the concepts used by them with the terminology of the existing laws. In this regard, the need to unify the terminology of penal legislation is substantiated in the article. In particular, instead of using three terms – “institutions and bodies executing punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty”, “places of deprivation of liberty” and “correctional institutions”, it is proposed to leave only one – “correctional institutions”.

Keywords

normative legal act; interpretation of the rule of law; text; term; penal system; execution of punishment; isolation from society.institutions and bodies; isolation from society.

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