Legal Encyclopedia. The Letter

Penalties:

1) fine - a monetary penalty, assigned to the extent provided the Criminal Code;

2) deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities - the prohibition to occupy positions in the civil service, local authorities or engage in certain professional or other activity;

3) deprivation of a special, military or honorary title, class rank and state awards;

4) compulsory work - perform condemned in free from work or school during free community service;

5) correctional works - works which are appointed by the convict who has no main place of work, and shall be served in places determined by the local government in agreement with the body administering the punishment, in the form of hard labor, but

area of ​​residence of the convicted person;

6) restrictions on military service - deprivation of the term specified in the verdict, career soldier (contractor) who has committed a crime with mandatory retention percent of money allowances of the convicted person;

7) restriction of freedom - the content of the convict who has reached at the time of sentencing by the court 18 years of age, in a special institution without isolation from the society in terms of implementation of supervision of them;

8) arrest - detention of prisoners in strict isolation from society;

9) in a disciplinary military unit;

10) imprisonment for a certain period Insulated convict from society by sending him to a colony-settlement facilities in an educational colony, medical correctional facility, correctional colony of general, strict or special regime, or into prison;

11) to life imprisonment;

12) the death penalty.

The death penalty as an exceptional measure

Punishment can be established only for especially grave crimes encroaching on life.

The order of appointment and legal significance of punishment are divided into:

1) basic punishments are appointed on their own and they can not connect to any other punishment. These include: community service, corrective labor, restriction in military service, restriction of freedom, arrest, detention in a disciplinary military unit, deprivation of liberty for a definite term, life imprisonment, the death penalty;

2) the additional punishment that can not be assigned independently and are always attached to the main form of punishment. These include: deprivation of special, military or honorary title, class rank and state awards;

3) mixed, ie fine, deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities that may be applied as basic and as additional penalties.

If additional penalty specified in

sanctions article of the Criminal Code as an alternative, the court may either apply or not to apply an additional penalty, specifying it in the verdict and sentencing in motivating a whole. If the additional penalty sanctions specified in the article as mandatory, the court is obliged to apply it.

In the theory of criminal law penalties are divided into two groups:

1) penalty associated with isolation from society persons;

2) punishment, not connected with isolation from society faces.