The execution of criminal penalties remains one of the most important areas of state activity. The achievement of the goals of criminal punishment depends on the proper functioning of institutions and bodies executing punishment. The article analyzes the role of educational work with convicted minors. This category of criminals, due to the flexible psyche of a teenager, high susceptibility to other people's influence, is more susceptible to the means and methods that are used in the process of its implementation. The author examines the features of the educational impact on juvenile convicts serving sentences in the form of imprisonment in educational colonies based on the study of regulatory legal acts and available scientific publications. The shortcomings of legal regulation of the activities of educational colonies, as well as insufficiently effective practices, forms and measures of educational work with convicted juveniles today give rise to problems in achieving the goals of criminal punishment. The author came to the conclusion that at present the state and society as a whole are not able to fully ensure effective prevention of juvenile delinquency. In this regard, there is a need for the use of criminal law means. As an alternative to punishment of minors in the form of imprisonment, it is proposed to apply coercive measures of educational influence. It is assumed that expanding the scope of the appointment of compulsory measures of educational influence will help to increase the effectiveness of the application of these measures in practice.

Akkaeva H.A., (2021), PECULIARITIES OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR MINORS IN EDUCATIONAL COLONIES. Gaps in Russian Legislation, 2: 146-149.

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juvenile convict, imprisonment, execution of punishment, educational colony, educational influence, correction of the convict.