GROUNDS FOR EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY OR PENALTY (PUNISHMENT) WITH THE APPLICATION OF COMPULSORY MEASURES

This article discusses the grounds for exemption from liability or penalty by applying compulsory measures for crimes committed by minors that are not of great social danger and less serious. Local and foreign scholars' opinions on compulsory measures applied to minors are analyzed. It is also shown that it is possible to educate minors through compulsory measures applied to them. Compulsory measures applied to minors, in turn, are described as measures of compulsory educational influence, an independent form of reaction of the state to the crimes of minors, which has a criminal-legal character.