THE LEGAL CONDITION OF THE CRIMINAL RECORD IN RUSSIA: A TEMPORARY MEASURE OR A LIFELONG STIGMA?

Abstract

The article investigates the problems of legal regulation of the consequences of a criminal record as a criminal-legal measures that have taken place in the period of its validity or after its maturity or withdrawal. It examines the validity and feasibility of restricting the rights of convicted persons, in particular their voting and labor rights. The authors consider established in law gradation passive voting rights of persons convicted depending on the category of their crimes and the sentence. proposed his vision of the problem of optimization of these restrictions. They substantiated the idea of the illegality of the limitations of most labour and other rights after the withdrawal or cancellation of conviction, requiring the strongest possible action against them including criminal prosecution.