indemnified or individuals committing such acts are mostly charged to liability in the civil order. While this tendency is due to humanization of the penal policies on one hand, it may also be explained with attempts for activation of the economic and financial lives of specific countries from the other side. Such decriminalization in the context of application of such actions as financial amnesty may also be taken as a positive initiative from the economic perspective. A complete indemnification of any loss made and lost profits as a result of crimes and committing of such a violation first time may be considered as an adequate ground for exemption of this person from criminal liability and generally not considering this act a crime. Inclusion of the issues of exemption from the criminal liability in lawif the made loss is indemnified not only until the count hearing, but also in the period after issuance of the court ruling may considerably contribute to the reforms being made. When noting the court practice here, the issue of application of arrest and imprisonment as a last resort and proportionality of penalties to committed crimes are among the factors requiring a fundamental approach. In addition to these, being of imposing of penalties as social works generally formal was also accompanied with some misconduct. The Executive Order includes adoption of a draft law setting forth arrangement of an accurate registration of the persons serving to their penalties in the form of social works, prevention of evasion from these works and keeping of an accurate registration of the work time, and liability for officials for enabling penalized persons to evade from serving to their penalties in the form of social works, which is important in terms of filling of arising gaps. Timely preparation and regularly updating and submission of of necessary lists of workplaces by local executive authorities are also among the important issues that need attention. Also, in draft laws to be developed by relevant authorities to humanize the penal policies, review of the penalty of restriction of freedom, specified in the criminal law previously, and updating of this penalty on the basis of international practices and editing it may also significantly contribute to improvement of the country’s practices in terms of alternative penalty reforms. The mentioned important Executive Order also provides wide opportunities to reach international standards, including the European Penitentiary Rules in terms of reforms in the national legislation on the basis of comprehensive legal reforms and further improvement of protection of the rights, and the detention conditions of those detained penitentiary facilities. An active participation of the Ombudsman in these processes as an NPM enabled making of amendments to the Criminal Code, Criminal Procedural Code and Penal Execution Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan and to 59