Criminal and procedural problems of the criminal law standards application on the release of a minor from punishment with placement in a special closed educational institution

On the basis of an analysis of the norms of criminal and criminal procedure law, law expository and law enforcement practice, the author discovers incompleteness and divergence of criminal procedural regulation, which prevent to form a unified practice of the criminal law standards application on the release of a minor from punishment with placement in a special closed educational institution. The author proves that these problems cannot be solved only by « pointed» improvement of procedure rules written in the criminal procedure law, because of the uncertain nature of the State coercive measure of placing a minor in a special closed educational institution.