Legal regulation and organization of the activities of parental committees in the FPS of Russia educational colonies
The article shows the importance of parental committees in educational work with juveniles sentenced to imprisonment, examines the current problems of legal regulation of the activities of parental committees in educational colonies of the Federal Penitentiary Service and suggests ways to solve them. The article is devoted to statistical data, domestic penal legislation, scientific literature on the topic of the article, the experience of educational colonies in organizing parental committees. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the high importance of the parental committees’ activities in the work with convicted juveniles, to highlight some of the gaps currently existing in the penal legislation that reduce the effectiveness of parental committees in educational work with convicted juveniles, to formulate specific amendments to the current regulatory legal acts. The methodological basis of the research was the statistical method, analysis, synthesis, induction, system-structural, formallogical methods, and the questionnaire method. As a result of the work carried out, the role of parental committees in educational work with juveniles sentenced to imprisonment is shown; the domestic penal legislation is analyzed from the perspective of organizing the activities of parental committees in educational colonies; a survey among the employees of 18 educational colonies is conducted; proposals improving the legislation on the organization of the parental committees’ activities in educational colonies are formulated. It has been established that a more precise definition of the legal status of parental committees will contribute to defining the rights and obligations of members of parental committees, which will have a positive effect on the effectiveness of their work in providing educational impact on juvenile convicts and assisting the administration in organizing the educational work. These decisions will have a positive effect on the organization of the process of reforming juvenile convicts in educational colonies of the FPS of Russia. Conclusions are drawn about the importance of defining the legal status of parental committees in educational colonies, the procedure for their formation, terms of functioning, the rights and obligations of members of parental committees, normative consolidation of requirements for their composition.of criminal and penal law, to the practical activities of courts, as well as institutions and bodies that execute criminal sentences. Keywords: educational work with convicts, parental committee, educational colonies of the FPS of Russia, juveniles sentenced to imprisonment, forms of educational work.