Developing probation system in Russia: First results of Federal Law “On Probation in the Russian Federation” implementation

Abstract

The article examines the progress of establishing a probation system in the Russian Federation. The paper considers the results of the one-and-a-half-year period after the adoption of the Federal Law “On Probation in the Russian Federation”. The research subject is the common practice and statistics on implementation of the community-based, penitentiary, and post-penitentiary probation in Russia. The work defines strengths and weaknesses in the convicted people’s assistance both during execution and in service of sentences related and unrelated to isolation from society. Given federal probation legislation, subsidiary and departmental acts, the author concludes on the absence of unified legal regulation in the probation system. The established legislative goal for probation cannot be met due to this fact.