UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1955: the question of the revision
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Keywords:
Prisoners, UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, Penal practice,Abstract
The article presents a brief overview of the causes and conditions that prompted the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: consider the problem revision of international standards for the treatment of prisoners in 2012; to request to establish an intergovernmental expert group on the issue. The article also considered the UN Secretariat instructed States to provide information on good prison practice and proposals for the formation of the new standards.The purpose ofthe article -noteKazakh scientistsand practitionerstobegin in 2011, the international processfor the revision ofthe Standard Minimum Rulesfor the Treatment of Prisoners1955whichunfortunatelyKazakhofficialshave yet to join. Actuality of the themeis to study thenew trendsin the use ofimprisonmentin the world.The author notes thatthe main reasons forraising the question ofthe revision ofthisRules ofthe UNis the need toreflect the latestchangesin the penalmethodologyand bestpractices of the penitentiary.References
1 Minimal’nye standartnye pravila obrashhenija s zakljuchennymi. Prinjaty na pervom Kongresse OON po preduprezhdeniju
prestupnosti i obrashheniju s pravonarushiteljami v 1955 g. i odobreny ЕKOSOS OON v ego rezoljucijah 663 С(XXIV) ot 31
ijulja 1957 goda i 2076 (LXII) ot 13 maja 1977 goda / <http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl/>
2 The International Centre for Prison Studies / The Board of Trustees / Professor Andrew Coyl / http://www.prisonstudies.org/board-trustees/>
3 Soveshhanie Mezhpravitel’stvennoj gruppy jekspertov otkrytogo sostava po Minimal’nym standartnym pravilam OON, kasajushhimsja
obrashhenija s zakljuchennymi. Spravochnaja zapiska / <https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prisonreform/
AGMs/Paper_for_the_IEGM-Russian_version.pdf/>
4 World Prison Population List (ninth edition), Roy Walmsley, International Centre for Prison Studies, May 2011 / <http://
www.idcr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/WPPL-9-22.pdf/>
5 Chovgan V. Sovremennye tendencii razvitija minimal’nyh standartnyh pravil obrashhenija s zakljuchennymi/<http://ukrprison.
org.ua/expert/1334027883/>
6 Principy i praktika zashhity lic, lishennyh svobody, na amerikanskom kontinente. Utverzhdeny Mezhamerikanskoj komissiej
po pravam cheloveka 3-14 marta 2008 goda / <https://cms.unov.org/>
prestupnosti i obrashheniju s pravonarushiteljami v 1955 g. i odobreny ЕKOSOS OON v ego rezoljucijah 663 С(XXIV) ot 31
ijulja 1957 goda i 2076 (LXII) ot 13 maja 1977 goda / <http://www.un.org/ru/documents/decl/>
2 The International Centre for Prison Studies / The Board of Trustees / Professor Andrew Coyl / http://www.prisonstudies.org/board-trustees/>
3 Soveshhanie Mezhpravitel’stvennoj gruppy jekspertov otkrytogo sostava po Minimal’nym standartnym pravilam OON, kasajushhimsja
obrashhenija s zakljuchennymi. Spravochnaja zapiska / <https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prisonreform/
AGMs/Paper_for_the_IEGM-Russian_version.pdf/>
4 World Prison Population List (ninth edition), Roy Walmsley, International Centre for Prison Studies, May 2011 / <http://
www.idcr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/WPPL-9-22.pdf/>
5 Chovgan V. Sovremennye tendencii razvitija minimal’nyh standartnyh pravil obrashhenija s zakljuchennymi/<http://ukrprison.
org.ua/expert/1334027883/>
6 Principy i praktika zashhity lic, lishennyh svobody, na amerikanskom kontinente. Utverzhdeny Mezhamerikanskoj komissiej
po pravam cheloveka 3-14 marta 2008 goda / <https://cms.unov.org/>
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Kurmangali М. S. (2016). UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, 1955: the question of the revision. International Relations and International Law Journal, 67(3). Retrieved from https://bulletin-ir-law.kaznu.kz/index.php/1-mo/article/view/591
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