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Uvarov I.A. [Latentization of penitentiary criminal behavior of juvenile convicts, in the system of factors that reduce the effectiveness of penitentiary prevention] Political Science and Technology, 2025, Vol. 5, Iss. 4 Available at: https://politicjournal.ru/PDF/03PK425.pdf (in Russian).

Latentization of penitentiary criminal behavior of juvenile convicts, in the system of factors that reduce the effectiveness of penitentiary prevention

Uvarov Igor Alekseevich
Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia
Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute, Nevinnomyssk, Russia
E-mail: uvarov.igor@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-7505
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=456707

Abstract. The problems of qualitative assessment of the behavior of juvenile prisoners in custody have traditionally been in the field of sociological and criminological science. Depending on how the process of correcting juvenile convicts is organized, his further development as a law-abiding person also depends. At the same time, experts have recorded the presence in educational colonies of the facts of the commission of new crimes by juvenile convicts serving in them. In penitentiary criminology and the corresponding section of sociology, there is a stable idea that such behavior of juvenile convicts should be considered as a separate part of the «general penitentiary crime». Moreover, the authors often exclude those specific features that are inherent not only to persons serving sentences in educational colonies, but also the nature of the conditions in which this type of punishment is implemented. Researchers usually proceed from general criminological approaches in assessing the criminal behavior of minors in the penitentiary. According to the author of the proposed article, one of the specific signs of the illegal activity of juvenile convicts is its increased latency. The author substantiates his position with two independent groups of signs: age-related and motivational. Unlike «adults» sentenced to imprisonment, minors build a system of principles of interaction in their social environment in a completely different way. This leads not only to the fact that the facts of illegal behavior in most cases remain unknown to representatives of the relevant units of the educational colony. The most vivid illustration of this state can be the widely publicized facts of mass riots in educational colonies. Moreover, in each case, the long preparatory work of the convicts was recorded, which was not revealed in advance. The author of the article convincingly proves that the processes of penitentiary latentization in juvenile convicts are much more effective than in the similar category of convicted «adults».

Keywords: educational colony; juvenile convicts; deprivation of liberty in relation to minors; juvenile delinquency; serving sentences by minors; penitentiary criminality; criminal behavior of juvenile convicts; penitentiary prevention

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