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Skakov A.B. [Criminal subculture in correctional institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan — subculture of extreme living conditions] Political Science and Technology, 2024, Vol. 4, Iss. 4 Available at: https://politicjournal.ru/PDF/08PK424.pdf (in Russian).

Criminal subculture in correctional institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan — subculture of extreme living conditions

Skakov Aydarkan Baidekovich
Kostanay Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after Shrakbek Kabylbayev,
Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
E-mail: aidarkan@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-5473
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=436622

Abstract. Punishment in the form of imprisonment traditionally refers to one of the most serious in terms of the impact on the personality of the convicted person. At the same time, practice has shown that without its application, it is impossible to exercise effective control over crime. The Republic of Kazakhstan, as an independent state, has come a long way in the formation of its penitentiary system over the past thirty years of independence. At the same time, most of the negative elements that were inherent in the Soviet period continue to be relevant for sovereign Kazakhstan. In particular, in the conditions of isolation of convicts from society, a specific criminal or semi-criminal environment has formed. With its own specific subculture and system of organization and management. The proposed article examines the problems of the prevalence of this specific social phenomenon in correctional institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to the author of the article, the main conductors of her ideas of the criminal subculture are the so-called «thieves in law». This category of criminals is not new both for sovereign Kazakhstan and for all post-Soviet states. The author draws attention to the fact that in modern conditions, this category of leaders of the criminal environment and their subcultural relations have undergone serious changes. Even under the strict imperative of informal norms, representatives of the so-called «thieves’ community» began to allow a certain kind of departure from pre-existing norms. At the same time, those that are commonly referred to as «basic» are still preserved today. The author notes that, unlike the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan intends to solve the problem with this category of criminals by all available means.

Keywords: criminal subculture; subculture of convicts; penitentiary subculture; «thieves in law»; leaders of the criminal environment; criminal community; criminal environment of Kazakhstan

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