In the event of the commission of a crime by an alcoholic or drug addict the court, at the petition of a social organisation, collective of workers, comrades’ court, or organ of public health, may in addition to the penalty for the crime committed, apply compulsory treatment to such a person.
Persons of the above type who have been sentenced to receive punishment of a type not involving deprivation of freedom shall be given compulsory treatment at medical institutions with a special therapeutic and work regimen.
If such persons are sentenced to deprivation of freedom, they shall be given compulsory treatment while serving sentence, and after their release from the place of confinement such treatment shall, where necessary, be continued at medical institutions with a special therapeutic and work regimen.
Discontinuation of compulsory treatment is effected by the court at the suggestion of the medical institution in which the person has been placed for treatment.
In the event of the commission of a crime by a person who abuses alcoholic beverages, and who as a result has placed his family in a difficult material position, the court, in addition to assigning punishment for the crime committed, when such punishment does not involve deprivation of freedom, shall have the right, at the petition of a social organisation, collective of workers, comrades' court, to establish surveillance over such person.
Article 63. The application of compulsory measures of an educational character to minors.
If the court, pursuant to the third part of Article 10 of the present Code, deems it desirable not to assign criminal punishment to a minor who has committed a crime, it may order the following compulsory measure of a educational character:
- 1) imposition of the obligation to make an apology to the injured party, either in public or in another form determined by the court;
- 2) issuance of a reprimand or a strict reprimand;
- 3) warning;
- 4) imposition upon a minor who has reached the age of 15 years of an obligation to make restitution for damage done, provided the minor possesses his own source of income and that the damage doss not exceed 200 rubles in extent, or imposition of an obligation to eliminate, by his own labor, damage not in excess of 200 rubles; when the damage exceeds 200 rubles, restitution shall be made by way
