Traditional Family Values as the Spiritual and Moral Basis of Corrective Treatment of Minors Serving a Criminal Sentence in the Form of Imprisonment

The article presents two moral and legal dilemmas, the essence of which is reduced to the contradictory role of positively and negatively characterised families in the formation of the spiritual and moral foundations of correctional influence on juveniles deprived of liberty. In this context, the phenomenon of the ‘imaginary family’ is demonstrated, i.e. a family that formally does not possess external signs of socially dangerous situation, but actually is such. The multidimensional potential of the family in the effective treatment of juvenile convicts is considered. The problem of weakening of spiritual and moral family fasteners in connection with juvenile delinquency, which extends to 80 per cent of persons who committed a socially dangerous act when they were minors, is reflected. The relevant experience of functioning of the Kansk educational colony is shown. It is concluded that the criminal-executive legislation does not fully regulate the possibility of transmitting traditional family values to juveniles serving a criminal sentence in the form of imprisonment.