THE ROLE OF THE PROBATION SERVICE IN PREVENTIONCRIMINAL OFFENSE

The article is devoted to the study of the possibility of individualizing the system of criminal punishments and ensuring the correction of offenders without isolation from society, which served as the beginning of the formation of the institution of probation. The specified process began in 2015 and continues to this day - a period of transformations of regulatory and legal changes and further improvement of legislation in the field of criminal enforcement policy. The beginning of this period is the adoption of the Law of Ukraine "On Probation" and a number of other regulatory and legal acts, which approved the institution of probation at the national level, introduced programs for probation subjects for their further adaptation and reintegration into society. The role and place of the authorized body for probation in the system of preventive activities is determined. The article considers the system of prevention of criminaloffenses by the probation body, based on general theoretical and practical approaches defined by criminological science, which provide for general social, special criminological and individual measures to prevent criminal offenses.