On the issue of achieving the corrective goal of punishment

The article draws attention to the content and place in the system of goals of criminal punishment of such a goal as the correction of the convict. The author draws attention to the characteristics of the internal content and essence of the considered goal of punishment, names and reveals the criteria for achieving this goal. In the criminal law doctrine, there is a point of view that the goal of correction, legislatively enshrined in Part 2 of Article 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and in Part 1 of Article 1 of the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation are the same in their internal content. Based on the analysis, the author of the article attempts to change the existing approach to assessing the content of the goal in question in its criminal-legal and criminal-executive aspects. The result of the study is the conclusion that it is advisable to talk about the achievement of the goal under study not at the time of release of the person from the punishment appointed by the court, but after a certain period of time after his release. At the same time, the set of correctional measures applied in the process of executing the sentence, up to release from it, makes it possible to assess the effectiveness of the educational impact on the convict.