Keyword: «compulsory educational measures»

The importance of the use of compulsory educational measures to juvenile offenders due to the fact that the involvement of criminal responsibility is not only necessary to correct them, but also can harm their moral development. This is due to the fact that a criminal record is a consequence of engaging a minor to criminal prosecution and punishment applied to him, it leads to stigmatization of teen and makes it difficult to re-socialization and involvement penitentiary often leads to absorption of minor rules of the criminal subculture.