Criminal law: types of punishment

Criminal punishment is a measure of state enforcement, which the court appoints. It can be applied only to persons who have committed a crime, the composition of which is registered in the country's Criminal Code. The essence of criminal punishment is depriving a person of freedom or limiting his other rights.

Types of punishment are different. You can divide them into three categories. The first include those that are only basic. To the second - those that are only additional. The third category includes those that can be additional, and basic.

The types of criminal penalties that are fundamental:

- Compulsory, compulsory or corrective work;

- the death penalty ;

- restriction of freedom;

- restriction on military service;

- Arrest;

- content in the disciplinary HF;

- deprivation of liberty (possibly for a certain or life sentence).

Additional types of punishment - this deprivation of honorary title, state award, class rank. Separately, they are not appointed. Deprivation of the right to engage in any particular activity and a fine are those types of punishments in criminal law, which may be additional and basic.

A fine is a monetary penalty, the limits and grounds of which are specified in the Criminal Code. In general, the size of it is assigned by the court. It all depends on the circumstances of the case, the identity of the culprit and so on. A fine can be in the form of a specific amount or earnings of a person for any period of time. A large amount can be paid in installments. Malicious evasion of its payment (for example, concealment of property), as a rule, entails serious consequences.

A person may be deprived of the right to engage in specific activities or hold a certain position. Constraints can be permanent or temporary.

A person who has been assigned compulsory work as punishment should, in his spare time, study his time to engage in unpaid public works. Their specific form, as well as the place in which they will be served, is appointed not by the court, but, for example, by the local self-government body after agreement with the penitentiary inspectorate.

Corrective labor is assigned to both a person who does not have a primary place of work and a person who is employed in a particular place. In the second case, the convicted person leaves them where he worked before the conviction. In the first case, such a place will be selected by the Penitentiary Inspectorate. Usually it is appointed taking into account the place of residence of the sentenced person. A maximum of two years. All this time, from the salary of the convict in favor of the state, a certain amount will be deducted - not more than twenty percent. The same percentage is deducted from the allowance of servicemen, against whom the court passed a verdict on the restriction of military service.

Types of punishment include restriction of freedom. In this case, the convict is limited in certain actions, such as leaving the house at night, visiting night institutions and so on. The maximum term of restraint of freedom is four years. All this time, the convict is supervised.

Forced labor is the main alternative to imprisonment. The places of forced labor are determined by the competent authorities. The maximum period is five years.

Prison is defined as deprivation of liberty, which does not exceed six months. The arrested person is isolated from the society. The specified term can not be exceeded.

According to the sentence of the court, a person may be imprisoned for not more than thirty years or for life. The supreme measure is the death penalty. It is provided for, but has not been produced for many years. The President has the right to pardon the person sentenced to her.