The role of confidential cooperation in peitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is disclosed in the article in order to prevent new crimes by convicts. The accent is made on the fact that today there are a number of problems of organization and activities of operational units of penitentiary institutions, which are practically not subject to scientific analysis. This state of scientific support and developments implementation in the practical activities of operational units is insufficient and requires a new reflection and reassessment of the past experience, considering current realities of operational units.

In order to solve the tasks of operational and investagtive activities including confidential cooperation, operational units of penitentiary institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine have the right to have non-public employees and use non-public cooperation.

Studying the issue of use of confidential cooperation in penitentiary institutions, it was found that their operatives, having received confidential cooperation with convicts and compromising the materials on other convicts, mainly used it for the purpose of preventing of committing new crimes by convicts in places of imprisonment.

At the same time, such practice is peculiar to the penitentiary system because of the closed correctional colonies and detention facilities, which causes the unwillingness to voluntarily assist the operative units, whether due to the criminal subculture in the part of the ban on cooperation with the administration, or due to fear of reprisal in case of decryption as an unspoken source.

A number of scientific and practical recommendations have been formulated to improve current criminal-executive, operational and investigative legislation, institutional normative legal acts.

Key words: confidential cooperation, penitentiary institution, prevention, convicted, crime.

References

1. Ukraine (1992), On operational investigative activity: Law of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Kyiv.
2. Ukraine (2003), Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine: Law of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Kyiv.
3. Usenko, V. F., Nekrasov, V. А., Matsiuk, V. Yf. (2007), Usage of citizens` confidential assistance in fight against crime: look of today, KNT, Kyiv.
4. Hrechenko, S. Yu. (2014), «Agent development of persons of their temporary detention», Scientific Bulletin of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, № 1, Part 2, pp. 65–71.
   
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