Regulation of postpenitentiary supervision under the legislation of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

The article is devoted to legal regulations of administrative supervi-sion as means of prevention of criminality, including recidivism, in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The modern state of normative consolidation of the concerned institution in Russia allows to assert that it is of complex character, including criminal legal, criminal and penal and administrative elements. The development of postpenitentiary supervision in the Republic of Belarus is given, the changes in its inner content (transfer from administrative to preventive supervision) are shown. The authors come to the conclusion that regulations within the criminal law of measures of state influence taken to persons committed crimes, which (the measures) are the legal consequence of the committed crime and are directly aimed at preventing other crimes, fully complies with the principle of legality.