Monografiya predstavlyaet soboy popytku analiza politicheskikh ustanovok osuzhdennykh v sovremennoy Rossii. V ney rassmatrivayutsya metodologicheskie i teoreticheskie podkhody k analizu politicheskikh ustanovok v zakrytykh sotsial'nykh sistemakh, politologicheskie aspekty problem politicheskikh ustanovok, raskryvaetsya avtorskaya metodika izucheniya politicheskikh ustanovok osuzhdennykh v mestakh lisheniya svobody, analiziruyutsya vidy politicheskikh ustanovok.Kniga prednaznachena dlya politologov, sotsiologov, psikhologov, prakticheskikh rabotnikov uchrezhdeniy ispolneniya nakazaniy.