Viešieji darbai: teisiniai ir socialiniai aspektai

Abstract

In this article there is analysed an independent criminal punishment – public works, witch was setup by the Penal Code and the Punishment Enforcement Code of Lithuanian Republic as alternative punishment to freedom deprivation punishment. Without looking into the process of historical development, it is made an attempt to overview the tendency of public works’ spreading, to analyse the problems of public works’ realisation and how to deal with them. There is compared Lithuanian legal regulations with international documents, witch are related with alternative punishment as alternative to freedom deprivation punishment (United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-Custodial Measures Adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/110 of 14 December 1990, Recommendation No. R (92) 16 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the European Rules on Community Sanctions and Measures Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 October 1992 at the 482nd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies, Recommendation No. R (99) 22 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States Concerning Prison Overcrowding and Prison Population Inflation Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30 September 1999 at the 681st meeting of the Ministers' Deputies, Recommendation Rec (2000) 22 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Improving the Implementation of the European Rules on Community Sanctions and Measures Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 29 November 2000 at the 731st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies). There is also looked over public works’ legal regulations in foreign countries, an experience of public works implementation in Lithuania and abroad and, the most important, there had been given landmarks of public works institution improvement.
The article is based upon the documents of the United Nations and the Council of Europe, legal regulations and practice of public works in foreign countries, opinion and studies of foreign scientists and the other authors, the data of statistics and questioning of the officers of correctional inspections.