Fedor V. Grushin

The article, taking into account the scientific views of scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University, substantiates the importance of combating recidivism and provides detailed socio-demographic characteristics of convicts (based on the materials of the special census of convicts and persons in custody, December 2022) who committed crimes with particularly dangerous recidivism and are held in correctional colonies special treatment. Some features of the execution of imprisonment in these correctional institutions are shown. The following characteristics of convicts held in special-regime penal colonies are analyzed: citizenship, age, education, marital status, occupation at the time of arrest or conviction, ability to work and health status, attitude to religion. The socio-demographic characteristics of convicts serving sentences in special-regime penal colonies are characterized by the following: an older age compared to other categories of convicts; a high level of education; a low intensity of maintaining social ties with their families; a high proportion of individuals with no specific occupation before their conviction; a high degree of employability, with a low level of involvement in productive labor; an increased proportion of retired convicts; and an indifferent attitude towards adhering to the religious norms of the religious denominations to which they (the convicts) belong. The socio-demographic characteristics of convicts in dynamics are characterized by: a significant "aging of convicts" in special regime penal colonies; an increase in their educational level; a decrease in the degree of their ability to work, while a significant decrease in the level of their involvement in productive labor; an increase in the proportion of pensioner convicts; and a decrease in the proportion of atheist convicts.