PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFYING THE CRIME RECIDIVISM

Агаев И.Б.
Вопросы классификации рецидива преступлений.
Proceedings of the Pedagogical University. Humanities series.
Baku, 2004, No. 4, pp. 474—485. 0,8 quires.

The paper is devoted to the bases for classification of crime recidivism. It is noted that problems of combating crime recidivism cause its classification, because the general concept of recidivism, despite its importance, doesn’t open all contents of this difficult legal phenomenon. It allows to reveal only its common features. In practice each case of recidivism is filled with particular contents defining the degree of its social danger and other peculiar legal features. According to the author, types of recidivism are characterized by various degree of social danger and have certain specific characteristics, therefore they involve appropriate consequences of penal, criminological, penitentiary and post-penitentiary character. Proceeding from it, the author considers that penal classification of recidivism alongside with theoretical one has also practical value. It allows to study this form of crime in all its manifestations and to define a complex of legal measures of its prevention.