HUMANCENTRIC TRIVIUM: HUMANITY, HUMAN DIGNITY, HUMANISM AS A VALUE AND LEGAL BASIS OF STIMULATION OF LAW-ABIDING BEHAVIOUR OF PRISONERS

Abstract

Abstract. The article is devoted to highlighting the essence and revealing the content of the aspects of humanity, human dignity, humanism in the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and presenting the humanistic theoretical-legal principles of legal regulation, policy and practice of stimulating the law-abiding behaviour of prisoners, formulated based on analysis and generalization of the relevant authentic and legally conscious experience reflected in international and Ukrainian sources of law, relevant terminological culture and semantic load, which is especially relevant in our time of rapid humancentric development of a supranationally integrated legal system through the consensus evolution of law, in particular by hardening of soft law. The article, in accordance with the research conducted on the basis of international sources of law: documents of soft and hard law and practice of the United Nations; European sources of law: documents of soft and hard law of the Council of Europe, the results of the activities of supervisory institutions and the practice of the European Court of Human Rights; Ukrainian political, legal and scientific discourse, conceptualizes the essence and content of the humancentric trivium of the treatment of prisoners: humanity, dignity, humanism in the legal concepts of "humanity in the treatment of prisoners", "human dignity" and "the principle of humanism of criminal-executive legislation, execution and serving of sentences", which form the value-legal basis of the execution of criminal sentences in general and, directly, its quintessence  – stimulation of law-abiding behaviour of convicts, which constitutes the value of new scientific knowledge and benefits for the further development of jurisprudence, improvement of legislative regulation and policy and practice of criminal justice.

Keywords: prisoners; humanity; human dignity; humanism; human rights; punishment; stimulation of law-abiding behaviour; rehabilitation.