Legal status of minors held in educational colonies in the Russian Federation
The article is devoted to the analysis of the theoretical and legal bases regulating the legal status of minors who are in places of deprivation of liberty. The methodological basis of the research is made up of general scientific, private and special methods of cognition. The general scientific dialectical method allowed us to consider the problem of legal relations arising in the sphere of securing the legal status of minors who have been sentenced to imprisonment; to conduct a comparative analysis of international and domestic legislation in regulating the designated topic. Using the methods of formal logic, the transformations in the sphere of regulating the legal status of juvenile convicts at the present stage are characterized, defects in regulatory regulation are identified. The methods of scientific knowledge will help to conduct a study of the current legislation for its compliance with the problem under consideration.