The effectiveness of the application of measures of restraint to minors in the form of detention and house arrest

The problem of minors committing a large number of crimes in recent years has become more and more serious, which is facilitated by the decrease in the social responsibility of adolescents, the spread of soft drugs, and the lack of moral and moral guidelines. With the development of digital technologies, adolescents are increasingly dependent on gadgets, social networks, the opinions of popular personalities among them, and teenage subcultures. All this contributes to an increase in the number of various kinds of crimes committed by minors. In this regard, the question often arises of the need to apply certain preventive measures to minors, in particular, detention and house arrest. Detention, chosen as a measure of restraint, pursues three main goals: ensuring control over the whereabouts of the person against whom charges of a crime have been brought; prevention of new criminal acts, the commission of which is possible while maintaining their freedom of movement; exclusion of the probability of committing actions aimed at obstructing the investigation and avoiding responsibility. The measure of restraint considered by the authors is one of the forms of criminal procedural coercion, which is due to the use of such measures in cases where there is a possibility that the suspect or the accused will attempt to obstruct the administration of justice. The empirical basis of the study was the materials of investigative and judicial practice. The purpose of the study: to analyze the degree of effectiveness of the application of such preventive measures to minors as detention and house arrest.