FEATURES OF THE FORMATION OF CRIMINAL GROUPS IN PENAL INSTITUTIONS Bondarenko Sergey Vyacheslavovich. <...> Place of employment: Samara law Institute of FPS of Russia. <...> Department: Regime and Protection in the Criminal Executive System chair. <...> E-mail: m003tt163@mail.ru Annotation: The article is devoted to the formation of criminal groups in the criminal and executive system of Russia. <...> The author reveals the mechanism of association of the convicts in the group, types of groups of convicted persons, factors contributing to their association, describes in detail the characteristics of the personality of convicts, based on formation the penitentiary criminal groups. <...> Автор раскрывает механизм объединения осужденных в группы, виды групп осужденных, факторы, способствующие их объединению, подробно описывает признаки личности осужденных, на основе которых формируются пенитенциарные преступные группы! <...>