Features of countering penitentiary crime

The article is devoted to the analysis of the features of countering penitentiary crime. In 2018-2023 in the Russian Federation there has been an increase in the number of convicts committing crimes while serving their sentences in the form of deprivation of liberty, this is without taking into account their high level of latency and the number of employees committing crimes in penitentiary institutions (their criminal activity it has a negative effect on the correction of convicts, the prevention of crimes, the normal procedure for the execution of criminal penalties, etc.). It is indicated that the counteraction to penitentiary crime is carried out in two directions: general social counteraction (identification and elimination of economic, social, legal, cultural and moral causes and conditions of penitentiary crime) and special criminological counteraction (identification and elimination of special de-terminants through prevention (general, individual, victimological) and the suppression of crimes of the group in question). It is only through the discovery of determinants and their impact that a reduction in penitentiary crime can be achieved. It is concluded that the existing negative trends in penitentiary crime require the development of effective counteraction measures, for example, increasing wages for prison staff convicted serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty; developing a strategy to counter penitentiary crime; equipping penitentiary institutions with advanced digital technologies, as well as improving those that take place in the present time; conducting monitoring and developing psychological programs aimed at reducing the level of psychological tension among convicts, etc. Analytical work has been carried out on the study of various measures to counteract juvenile delinquency, which can later be used in scientific research.