PERSONAL ASPECT IN REHABILITATION OF CONVICTS PEOPLE

Abstract

Personalism, as a philosophical direction, inspires man in a subjective way, validating his dignity and right to self-determination. In general, personalism opposes instrumentalisation of the individual, emphasising the spiritual dimension of humanity. The primary goal of resocialisation, described in literature as the “minimum goal”, is to stop criminals from committing punishable acts, and to eliminate socially harmful deviant behaviour, by directing convicts towards socially desirable change and inspiring them to change themselves. The concept of punishment popular today assumes that it is appropriate to rehabilitate offenders with the use of liberty punishments. In other words, it is desirable that those who require re-socialisation should not only be punished with imprisonment, because paradoxically it is the individual’s freedom that is the fundamental value of resocialisation.

Keywords

• person
• personalism
• resocialization
• stigmatization
• freedom