Features of legal regulation of post-penitential adaptation of convicts in Kazakhstan

The paper gives a brief overview of the main regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Criminal Executive Code (2014), the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Crime Prevention” (2010), “On Probation” (2016), “On Special Social Services” ( 2008), Decrees of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Concept of the legal policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the period from 2010 to 2020” (2009), “On approval of the Comprehensive Strategy for the social rehabilitation of citizens released from prison and registered with probation services in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2017-2019” (2016), Order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the Approval of the Rules for Conducting Educational Work with Sentenced to Deprivation of Liberty” (2014), which disclose the rules governing the process of re-socialization and post-penitential adaptation of convicts. Based on the comparative legal method, such features of its legal regulation are distinguished, in contrast, for example, from Russia, such as the adoption of an independent document regulating the process of post-penitential adaptation of convicts of Kazakhstan, the institutionalization of additional forms and bodies in the system of the penal system of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Employment in Colonies” Internet blog, probation services, voluntary organizations of convicts), the lack of an organizational and legal basis for activities of non-governmental organizations, volunteer associations for social support of convicts in the Republic of Kazakhstan.