On April 12, 2024, an international scientific and practical conference «Actual problems of penal enforcement law and execution of punishments» was held in Nizhny Novgorod in memory of Professors N. A. Struchkov and M. P. Melentyev with a thematic meeting «Resocialization of persons released from institutions of the penal enforcement system: the role of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and other subjects crime prevention». The co-organizers of this event, in addition to the Department of Penal Enforcement Law and the organization of educational work with convicts of the Academy of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, were the St. Petersburg Academy of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, as well as the Union of Criminologists and Criminologists. The conference was the first of its kind and identified areas for further improvement of the theory, legislation and practice of implementing the institute of probation and execution of sentences, including the re-socialization of persons released from institutions of the penal enforcement system, as well as correctional and preventive measures against them.